Call to action: rural health: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association

RA Harrington, RM Califf, A Balamurugan, N Brown… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Understanding and addressing the unique health needs of people residing in rural America
is critical to the American Heart Association's pursuit of a world with longer, healthier lives …

Changes in postacute care in the Medicare Shared Savings Program

JM McWilliams, LG Gilstrap, DG Stevenson… - JAMA internal …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Postacute care is thought to be a major source of wasteful spending. The extent
to which accountable care organizations (ACOs) can limit postacute care spending has …

Changes in hospital quality associated with hospital value-based purchasing

AM Ryan, S Krinsky, KA Maurer… - New England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Starting in fiscal year 2013, the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP)
program introduced quality performance–based adjustments of up to 1% to Medicare …

[HTML][HTML] Factors that affect health-care utilization

National Academies of Sciences … - Health-care utilization …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The committee was tasked with identifying factors that influence a person's use of health-
care services, including poverty and level of urbanization. This chapter will address those …

Upstream With A Small Paddle: How ACOs Are Working Against The Current To Meet Patients' Social Needs: A study of how some ACOs are attempting to address …

GF Murray, HP Rodriguez, VA Lewis - Health Affairs, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
Despite interest in addressing social determinants of health to improve patient outcomes,
little progress has been made in integrating social services with medical care. We aimed to …

For-profit hospitals have thrived because of generous public reimbursement schemes, not greater efficiency: a multi-country case study

PPT Jeurissen, FM Kruse, R Busse… - … Journal of Health …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
For-profit hospitals' market share has increased in many nations over recent decades.
Previous studies suggest that their growth is not attributable to superior performance on …

Contracts for healthcare referral services: Coordination via outcome-based penalty contracts

E Adida, F Bravo - Management Science, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
This work focuses on the business-to-business interaction between a service requester and
a service provider in a healthcare environment. The requester is the primary caregiver …

Association between hospitals' engagement in value-based reforms and readmission reduction in the hospital readmission reduction program

AM Ryan, S Krinsky, J Adler-Milstein… - JAMA internal …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Medicare is experimenting with numerous concurrent reforms aimed at
improving quality and value for hospitals. It is unclear if these myriad reforms are mutually …

Little evidence exists to support the expectation that providers would consolidate to enter new payment models

HT Neprash, ME Chernew, JM McWilliams - Health Affairs, 2017 - healthaffairs.org
Provider consolidation has been associated with higher health care prices and spending.
The prevailing wisdom is that payment reform will accelerate consolidation, especially …

Is there a VA advantage? Evidence from dually eligible veterans

DC Chan, D Card, L Taylor - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We study public versus private provision of health care for veterans aged 65 and older who
may receive care provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and in private …