
Anthem and other Blue MA Plans are worse than traditional Medicare in use of Low Value Services
In the November 1, 2024 issue of JAMA, Ciara Duggan and others from Harvard and Brigham published a paper evaluating the utilization of “low value
In the November 1, 2024 issue of JAMA, Ciara Duggan and others from Harvard and Brigham published a paper evaluating the utilization of “low value
A JAMA study reports that PCPs are contractually held accountable for 57 unique quality metrics and asserts that is “oversaturation.” I have disagreed with the premise that we need fewer measures. On the contrary, I believe that we actually need a lot more measures to finally convince health care provider organizations to stop trying to “study for the test” and to actually learn the subject and improve the core processes that drive health care quality.
A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine compared the economic outcomes of hospital episodes managed by hospitalists to those managed by the patients’
This morning, I read a set of slides published by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET) called “Striving