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Tag Archives: Medicare
Value-based MA Model Eyed as Boon to Population Health
Flawed Shared Savings and Pioneer ACO programs are here to stay, consultant says
Nearly 75 percent of ACOs in the program earned no savings in 2014.
At a glance: Medicare fraud in hospitals
Observation status, ED visits create illusion of fewer readmissions, quality gains
Pay for performance “pressures hospitals to cheat,” authors say
Cancer Spending in California: What Medicare Data Say
How Medicare’s transitional care movement may prevent readmissions
CEO Rani Khetarpal: Clinical interventions needed throughout 30-day post-discharge period
“Cowboy Doctors” and Health Costs
http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/08/cowboy-doctors-and-health-costs
WHO’S DRIVING UP U.S. healthcare costs? A recent study by Harvard professors and colleagues revealed that the culprits may be “cowboy doctors”—physicians who provide intensive, unnecessary, and often ineffective patient care, resulting in wasteful spending costing as much as 2 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product—hundreds of billions of dollars annually
HENRY KOTULA 