Impact of Medicare’s Nonpayment Program on Hospital-acquired Conditions

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/384jopG on December 31, 2020 at 04:56PM Background Medicare’s Nonpayment Program of 2008 (hereafter called Program) withholds hospital reimbursement for costs related to hospital-acquired conditions (HACs). Little is known whether a hospital’s Medicare patient load [quantified by the hospital’s Medicare utilization ratio (MUR), which is the […]

Quality of Quality Measurement

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/3o7RUVV on December 31, 2020 at 04:56PM Background The validity of basing healthcare reimbursement policy on pay-for-performance is grounded in the accuracy of performance measurement. Methods Monte Carlo simulation was used to examine the accuracy of performance profiling as a function of statistical methodology, case volume, […]

Outcomes Are Worse in US Patients Undergoing Surgery on Weekends Compared With Weekdays

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/3pvLJLI on December 31, 2020 at 02:55PM Background Increasing surgical access to previously underserved populations in the United States may require a major expansion of the use of operating rooms on weekends to take advantage of unused capacity. Although the so-called weekend effect for surgery has […]

The year in passings

from Market Design at https://bit.ly/3pAlpju on December 31, 2020 at 01:22PM This year I noted the following deaths with particular significance to readers of this blog: Monday, December 21, 2020  Edward (Eddie) Lazear (1948-2020) Saturday, November 7, 2020 Bernard Cohen (1934-2020), who convinced the Supreme Court that bans on inter-racial marriage were unconstitutional Thursday, October […]

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Care for Health System-Affiliated Physician Organizations and Non-Affiliated Physician Organizations

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/38K288B on December 30, 2020 at 02:56PM This article assesses racial and ethnic disparities in care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries and whether disparities differ between health system-affiliated physician organizations (POs) and nonaffiliated POs.