MedPAC on Medicare plan competitive bidding
Austin Frakt June 15, 2013
I cracked open the latest MedPAC report to read its recommendations on hospital readmissions. There wasn’t much new in it beyond what I could infer
I cracked open the latest MedPAC report to read its recommendations on hospital readmissions. There wasn’t much new in it beyond what I could infer
No, not “here,” but at AcademyHealth. AcademyHealth seeks thought leaders with innovative experiences in the translation, dissemination and implementation of health services research (HSR) for
Helen Mayberg and her colleagues have a paper in JAMA Psychiatry (see also here) reporting progress on the development of a treatment-specific biomarker for major depressive disorder
Sam Richardson, Aaron, and Austin submitted a more efficiently worded version of the following as a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Going to the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting? If you have an Android, iOS, or web-enabled device, you don’t need to lug around the heavy agenda
One of the things I’m fascinated by is the way history repeats itself when it comes to health care reform. Everyone acts as if what
There’s an awesome study that was just published in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Appropriate Use of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in a Veteran Population: Profit Motives and Professional
We’re proud to announce that Adrianna McIntyre will be the first ever TIE intern, beginning at the end of the summer. We’ve linked to her
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
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
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