Value-based payment for clinicians treating cardiovascular disease: a policy statement from the American Heart Association

AT Sandhu, PA Heidenreich, W Borden, SA Farmer… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Clinician payment is transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based payment, with
reimbursement tied to health care quality and cost. However, the overarching goals of value …

Frailty, guideline-directed medical therapy, and outcomes in HFrEF: from the GUIDE-IT trial

MS Khan, MW Segar, MS Usman, S Singh, SJ Greene… - Heart Failure, 2022 - jacc.org
Objectives In this study, we sought to evaluate the association of frailty with the use of
optimal guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) and outcomes in heart failure with …

Association of hospital participation in bundled payments for care improvement advanced with Medicare spending and hospital incentive payments

SA Shashikumar, B Gulseren, NL Berlin… - JAMA, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) is a Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiative that aims to produce financial savings by …

Changes in cardiovascular spending, care utilization, and clinical outcomes associated with participation in Bundled Payments for Care Improvement–Advanced

SA Shashikumar, J Zheng, EJ Orav, AM Epstein… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Bundled Payments for Care Improvement–Advanced (BPCI-A) is a
Medicare initiative that aims to incentivize reductions in spending for episodes of care that …

Outcomes following surgical and nonsurgical treatment for uncomplicated appendicitis in older adults

M Ashbrook, M McGing, V Cheng… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The optimal treatment of acute uncomplicated appendicitis in older adults with
frailty is not defined. Objective To examine outcomes associated with treatment strategies for …

Quality measurement for cardiovascular diseases and cancer in hospital value-based healthcare: a systematic review of the literature

R Abdalla, M Pavlova, M Hussein, W Groot - BMC Health Services …, 2022 - Springer
Background This systematic literature review identifies hospital value-based healthcare
quality measures, measurement practices, and tools, as well as potential strategies for …

Impact of longitudinal data-completeness of electronic health record data on risk score misclassification

Y Jin, S Schneeweiss, D Merola… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Electric health record (EHR) discontinuity, that is, receiving care outside of a
given EHR system, can lead to substantial information bias. We aimed to determine whether …

Medicare's Bundled Payments For Care Improvement Advanced Model: Impact On High-Risk Beneficiaries: Study examines the impact of Medicare's Bundled …

KE Joynt Maddox, EJ Orav, J Zheng, AM Epstein - Health Affairs, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI-A) is a
voluntary Alternative Payment Model in which participating hospitals are held accountable …

Three-Year Impact Of Stratification In The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Study examines a new approach by the Hospital Readmissions …

SA Shashikumar, RJ Waken, R Aggarwal… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) financially penalizes
hospitals with high readmission rates. In fiscal year 2019 the program was changed to …

Association of diagnostic coding‐based frailty and outcomes in patients with heart failure: a report from the Veterans Affairs Health System

S Kohsaka, AT Sandhu, JT Parizo, S Shoji… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The aim of this study was to determine whether frailty is associated with
increased admission and mortality risk in the setting of heart failure. Methods and Results …