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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

What is missing from the CMS Innovation Center five year vision?

The Biden administration’s CMS Innovation Center 5-year vision conspicuously lacks mention of what I consider to be necessary course corrections to reverse a disappointing first decade.

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Dr. Ward August 18, 2021 1 Comment
Evaluation Methods

Al Lewis calls workplace wellness programs “get well quick schemes”

Al Lewis is an actuarial consultant that has long focused on challenging wellness and care management vendors to prove their value.  He founded the “Disease

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Dr. Ward January 21, 2013 1 Comment
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)

Conceptualizing “over-treatment” waste: Don’t deny health economics

A Health Policy Brief published in Health Affairs on December 13, 2012 referenced an analysis published last April in JAMA regarding waste in health care.

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Dr. Ward December 23, 2012 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Is current low trend in health care cost growth due only to recession? Ken Kaufman suggests that 5 other factors may be contributing.

In a very interesting recent post to the Health Affairs blog, Ken Kaufman challenges the widely repeated assertion that the current low level of health

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Dr. Ward April 16, 2012 No Comments
Dr. Ward's Methods Notes

Telling a 46 year health care cost growth story in one graph

In a recent post to the Health Affairs Blog, Charles Roehrig, an economist who serves as VP and director of Altarum’s Center for Sustainable Health

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Dr. Ward November 12, 2011 2 Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Klar 4: Why is it important for CMS to Share Claims Data with ACOs?

Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation. He

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Dr. Ward July 25, 2011 No Comments
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