Recently added articles from Health Care Financing Review:
Redesigning the Medicare inpatient PPS to reduce payments to hospitals with high readmission rates.(prospective payment system)(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Averill, Richard F. ... INTRODUCTION Pay for performance initiatives, which seek to link payment and quality, have until recently taken the form of financial rewards to providers who meet targets for process measures and intermediate outcomes. The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 (RL. 109-171) was a ...
Estimating the costs of potentially preventable hospital acquired complications.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Fuller, Richard L. ... INTRODUCTION With increasing medical care costs and a weakening economy more attention is being placed upon obtaining value from how health care dollars are spent. Initiatives to obtain increased value from health care purchases are especially focused upon perceived waste ...
Need for risk adjustment in adapting episode grouping software to Medicare data.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; MaCurdy, Thomas ... INTRODUCTION Pay for Performance (P4P) can be broadly defined as "any type of performance-based provider payment arrangements including those that target performance on cost measures" (Dudley and Rosenthal, 2006). One technology suggested by many in the policy and healthcare ...
The Medicare hospice payment system: a consideration of potential refinements.
Jun 22, 2009; Nicosia, Nancy ... INTRODUCTION There is increasing concern among policymakers and researchers that the current per diem payment methodology for hospice may create incentives for providers to select patients with particular diagnoses or longer expected length of stay (Huskamp et al., 2001; ...
Linking tumor registry and Medicaid claims to evaluate cancer care delivery.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; Schrag, Deborah ... INTRODUCTION An enormous body of research demonstrates that disparities in health care based on socioeconomic status are pervasive. Identifying strategies to evaluate and ultimately improve health care delivery for the poor is a national priority (Institute of Medicine, 2001; ...
