The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increasingly focused on value-based
payment programs, which tie payment to performance on quality and cost measures. In this …

Objective To assess the relationship between a composite measure of neighborhood
disadvantage, the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), and control of blood pressure, diabetes …

Introduction Infants and children diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) have a
higher likelihood of recurrent hospitalizations and asthma‐like symptoms. Socio …

Background Risk adjustment models are employed to prevent adverse selection, anticipate
budgetary reserve needs, and offer care management services to high-risk individuals. We …

Prospective payments for health care providers require adequate risk adjustment (RA) to
address systematic variation in patients' health care needs. However, the design of RA for …

Importance The passage of the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to
Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act in 2018 allows Medicare Advantage (MA) plans …

Objective Racial and ethnic minority enrollees in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans tend to be
in lower‐quality plans, measured by a 5‐star quality rating system. We examine whether …

Background: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provide nationwide hospital
ratings that may influence reimbursement. These ratings do not account for the social risk of …

Abstract Background Social risk factors (SRFs) such as minority race-and-ethnicity or low
income are associated with quality-of-care, health, and healthcare outcomes. Organizations …

Background Differences in socioenvironmental exposures influence overall child health, but
their association with pediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) outcomes is less clear. This observational …