A5016963611- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Frailty in Older Adults
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
Harvard University
2021
Emory University
2014-2017
Brown University
2015
Medicare’s value-based purchasing (VBP) program potentially puts safety-net hospitals at a financial disadvantage compared to other hospitals. In 2014, the second year of program, patient mortality measures were added VBP program’s algorithm for assigning penalties and rewards. We examined whether inclusion in had disproportionate impact on nationally. found that more likely than be penalized under as result their poorer performance process experience scores. 63 percent versus 51 all sample...
Medicare's value-based purchasing (VBP) and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) could disproportionately affect safety-net hospitals.To determine whether hospitals incur larger financial penalties than other under VBP HRRP.Cross-sectional analysis.United States in 2014.3022 acute care participating HRRP.Safety-net were defined as being top quartile of Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) patient percentage uncompensated (UCC) payments per bed. The differences both...
The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to increase the value obtained from health care spending. A growing concern among policy experts is that new Medicare policies designed improve quality and efficiency of hospital care, such as value-based purchasing (VBP), Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), electronic record (EHR) meaningful-use criteria, will disproportionately affect safety-net hospitals, which are already facing reduced disproportionate-share (DSH) payments under...
Objective: Evaluate the growth in various types of Medicare-paid telehealth services
This study compares trends in Medicare payment adjustments to safety-net vs non–safety-net hospitals under Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) and Value-Based Purchasing programs, intended incentivize higher-quality health care.
See related letter by Gilman et al .
Notice of Retraction and Replacement: Favini et al. Comparative Trends in Payment Adjustments Between Safety-Net Other Hospitals Since the Introduction Hospital Readmission Reduction Program Value-Based Purchasing. JAMA. 2017;317(15):1578-1580.