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Integrating Biopsychosocial Intervention Research in a Changing Health Care Landscape
This article demonstrated both need and opportunity to develop, apply, and test social work integrated biopsychosocial and technology activated care within a large safety net care system.
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How Can We Make Health Care More Affordable?
Neeraj Sood testified before the California State Senate Committee on Health.
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US Hospitals Experienced Substantial Productivity Growth During 2002–11
Published in Health Affairs, Schaeffer Center faculty John Romley, Dana Goldman, and Neeraj Sood provide evidence that hospital productivity increased from 2002 to 2011, suggesting that the US health care system could be performing better than many believe. Romley, Goldman, and Sood analyzed data of elderly Medicare beneficiaries with heart attacks, heart failure, or pneumonia […]
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The US Hospital System May Be Outperforming Expectations
Schaeffer Center researchers provide evidence that hospital productivity increased from 2002 to 2011, suggesting that the US health care system could be performing better than many believe.
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Medicaid Access Restrictions on Psychiatric Drugs: Penny-Wise or Pound-Foolish?
Not only do formulary restrictions save little — if any — money on drug spending, they increase overall Medicaid spending for serious mental illnesses and may drive up incarceration costs.
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Physician Self-Referral: A Vexing and Costly Challenge
Reprioritizing the current fee-for-service environment with fee-for-value alternatives is a worthwhile systems change that might curb the financial incentive inherent in the volume-based model.
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2014 Wall Street Comes to Washington
Paul Ginsburg led a panel of bond and equity analysts in a wide-ranging discussion of the ACA’s impact on health care providers and insurers at the Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference.
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Why So Many New Tech Companies are Getting into Healthcare
Bob Kocher and Bryan Roberts discuss why new tech companies are getting into healthcare in the Harvard Business Review
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Medical Malpractice Reform: Noneconomic Damages Caps Reduced Payments 15 Percent, with Varied Effects by Specialty
This study analyzed a national sample of malpractice claims to estimate the impact of state noneconomic damages caps on average malpractice payment size for physicians overall and for 10 different specialty categories and found that, overall, noneconomic damages caps reduced average payments by $42,980 (15 percent), compared to having no cap at all.
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Accountable Care Organizations 2.0: Linking Beneficiaries
This article considers the broad consensus among physicians, hospital and health insurance leaders, and policy makers to reform payment to health care providers so as to reduce the role of fee for service, which encourages high volume, and instead to use systems that reward better patient outcomes, such as bundled payments for a population or for an episode of care, but the legislation essentially left beneficiaries out of the equation, not offering incentives to choose an ACO or to commit—even softly—to its health care providers, which may severely undermine the potential of this approach to improve care and control costs.
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