A5043160022- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Global Health Care Issues
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Phase Change Materials Research
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
- Pain Management and Treatment
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
- Adsorption and Cooling Systems
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Peripheral Artery Disease Management
Georgetown University
2022-2023
Harvard University
2018-2022
Tianjin Hospital
2022
Harvard University Press
2017-2021
University of Chicago
2020
National Bureau of Economic Research
2020
Stanford University
2020
IIT@MIT
2020
Institute of Engineering Thermophysics
2015
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2015
<h3>Importance</h3> Bundled payments are an increasingly common alternative payment model for Medicare, yet there is limited evidence regarding their effectiveness. <h3>Objective</h3> To report interim outcomes from the first year of implementation a bundled lower extremity joint replacement (LEJR). <h3>Design, Setting, and Participants</h3> As part 5-year, mandatory-participation randomized trial by Centers Medicare & Medicaid Services, eligible metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)...
Population-based global payment gives health care providers a spending target for the of defined group patients. We examined changes in spending, utilization, and quality through 8 years Alternative Quality Contract (AQC) Blue Cross Shield (BCBS) Massachusetts, population-based model that includes financial rewards penalties (two-sided risk).Using difference-in-differences method to analyze data from 2006 2016, we compared among enrollees whose physician organizations entered AQC starting...
Significance In the US healthcare system, most medical providers treat patients covered by multiple insurers. As a result, changes in way one health insurer pays for services could, changing provider behavior, spill over onto other this article, we present evidence of such spillovers context large Medicare payment reform that was implemented some areas country but not others, via random assignment. We show had effects similar magnitude on both directly and discuss implications these findings...
Government programs are often offered on an optional basis to market participants. We explore the economics of such voluntary regulation in context a Medicare payment reform, which one medical provider receives single, predetermined for sequence related healthcare services, instead separate service-specific payments. This "bundled payment" program was originally implemented as 5-year randomized trial, with mandatory participation by hospitals assigned new model; however, after two years,...
Importance Home dialysis rates for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) treatment are substantially lower in the US than other high-income countries, yet there is limited knowledge on how to increase these rates. Objective To report results from first year of a nationwide randomized clinical trial that provides financial incentives ESKD facilities and managing clinicians home Design, Setting, Participants Results were analyzed End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choice (ETC) model, multiyear,...
Price transparency regulations aim to help patients make informed decisions about medical care, but enforcing these rules is a policy challenge. There may be an association between financial penalties and hospital compliance for price regulations.
Patients with diabetic foot ulcer have a significantly lower quality of life. Quality life could be connected to other psychological or social processes. The purpose this study was examine the relationships between support, decision regret, self-stigma, and in patients ulcers. sample consisted 229 patients. Data were collected from September 2019 March 2020. demographic clinical information, Stigma Scale for Chronic Illness, Medical Coping Scale, Social Support Life scale used assess ulcer....
This cross-sectional study examines associations between characteristics of US hospitals and their compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regulations transparency insurance-negotiated prices.