In an article published in The New Yorker, Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director, and an associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, navigates readers through the complexities of the U.S. health care system. He highlights the gamification and corporatization of medicine that have left many patients, providers, and caregivers struggling. Dr. Khullar delved further into these […]
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In a first-of-its-kind study published in JAMA Health Forum, Dr. Lawrence Casalino, senior advisor at the Center, and colleagues investigated the relationship between physician altruism, health care quality, and medical spending. The study found that patients of altruistic physicians were less likely to experience avoidable hospitalizations or emergency department visits, and had lower overall health care spending. The study was also featured in
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In a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Health Forum, Dr. Lawrence Casalino, Senior Advisor at the Center and former Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell, and colleagues investigated the relationship between physician altruism, care quality and spending. Dr. Casalino discussed the study and its findings with editor John Ayanian, MD, MPP, and deputy
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An article in Medical Economics by Richard Payerchin highlights the recent telehealth study led by Dr. Jiani Yu, assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCM), Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director and assistant professor of population health sciences at WCM, and colleagues, which finds that telehealth use remains strong in primary
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In an article published in The New Yorker, Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director, and an associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, investigates the growing role of artificial intelligence in drug discovery. The piece examines the strengths and limitations of new machine-learning technologies, and what they could mean for the future of pharmaceutical research. Dr. Khullar
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In a first-of-its-kind study, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that female physicians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physicians in non-rural areas delivered relatively higher proportions of visits via telehealth. This national analysis may provide key information for policymakers to consider as COVID-19 provisions for expanded Medicare telehealth coverage are set to expire at the end
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Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are groups of health care practitioners and institutions responsible for the quality and cost of care for their attributed patients. Although ACOs are among Medicare’s most prominent value-based payment efforts, there is limited research on whether or how they change outcomes for patient populations facing barriers to high-quality health care, such as low-income individuals and members of racial and ethnic minority groups, who comprise five to
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Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director and assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, discussed the findings of his recent research letter in JAMA Health Forum with Rylee Wilson, journalist at Becker’s Behavioral Health (BBH). They explore how audio-only telehealth use has changed over time, necessary policy reforms, and the larger impact
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicare expanded telehealth coverage for audio-only telehealth visits. However, Medicare reimbursement for these visits will expire after December 2024. A research letter in JAMA Health Forum from Dr. Dhruv Khullar, assistant professor of population health sciences, and colleagues examines how audio-only telehealth use has changed over time and which patients are
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The Medical Shared Savings Program (MSSP), one of the largest value-based payment efforts in the United States, has been ongoing for more than a decade. In recent years, there have been a number of reforms to the program and in the health care system more broadly. In a study published in JAMA Health Forum, Dr.
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