Day: June 12, 2013

Stand Up! – June 12, 2013

Aaron Carroll June 12, 2013

I am a frequent guest on Stand Up! with Pete Dominick, which airs on Sirius/XM radio, channel 104 from 6-9AM Eastern. It immediately replays on the channel, so

Would the correct hospital readmissions metric please stand up?

Austin Frakt June 12, 2013

If hospital readmission rates measure and rank hospitals by quality, what are we to make of this? Objective. To quantify the differential impact on hospital

The longest ever study of consumer-directed health plans

Austin Frakt June 12, 2013

It’s by Paul Fronstin, Martín Sepúlveda, and M. Christopher Roebuck in the latest Health Affairs and spanned four years, 2007-2010. The study also exploits the natural experiment

Day: June 12, 2013

Stand Up! – June 12, 2013

Would the correct hospital readmissions metric please stand up?

The longest ever study of consumer-directed health plans

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