Current policies aimed at improving the quality of health care in the United States have fallen short. However, a novel approach to achieving quality outcomes tested by the Center for Medicare and ...
Credit: Getty Images. Dr Crawford discusses the challenges facing pediatric nurse practitioners, including the shortages of primary care providers in rural and underserved urban areas. Meet Daniel ...
Efficacy and Safety of Roxadustat for Anemia in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy for Nonmyeloid Malignancies: A Randomized, Open-Label, Active-Controlled Phase III Study This observational study used ...
American healthcare is highly inefficient. Across a variety of long-term health and treatment outcomes and patient safety metrics, the U.S. has lower performance compared with countries of similar ...
The evolution of health care quality metrics over the preceding decades illustrates an enduring commitment toward enhancing patient outcomes, refining the structure of health care delivery, and ...
The momentum of value-based care is poised to accelerate. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has outlined an ambitious objective: to transition all traditional Medicare beneficiaries into ...
Model A, a health system-MCO partnership, significantly reduced severe maternal morbidity and prenatal emergency department visits compared to non-ACO groups. Model B, led by primary care practices, ...
CMS has been trying to scale value-based care for decades with mixed results — but the agency’s newly announced ACCESS model could represent a more meaningful step toward aligning payment with ...
For many years, the American health care system has followed a simple model: Pay providers for the services they deliver. This fee-for-service model, still used today, pays providers based on the ...