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An article in MarketWatch by Brett Arends highlights a recent study on Medicare Advantage, led by Dr. Lawrence Casalino, senior advisor at the Center, Dr. Amelia Bond, associate professor of population...
Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through 2019,...
In a new Viewpoint for JAMA, Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director, and associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Amelia Bond, associate professor of population...
The cover story of the Minnesota Medicine, titled “First, do no (administrative) harm” by Mary Hoff, focused on the adverse consequences of administrative burdens on clinicians and patients. Dr....
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...
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,...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For over a decade, the Medicare Shared Savings Program has participated in accountable care organization (ACO) models. As of 2022, roughly 11 million patients are...
Vertical integration in healthcare has become a dominant trend, whereby hospitals acquire physician practices. Between 2019 and 2022 alone, hospitals acquired 4800 additional practices, and 58,000 more...
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a Medicare value-based payment program designed to measure and incentivize quality. Researchers, policymakers, and clinicians have increasingly raised...
Using an innovative method for measuring doctor turnover, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers determined that between 2010 and 2018, the annual rate at which physicians left their practices increased by...
Hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a large federal safety-net program, are financially incentivized to prescribe original biologic drugs to prevent and treat diseases in lieu of...
Over the past decade, physician management companies (PMCs) have increasingly acquired physician practices and contracted with hospitals to provide physician management services. PMCs...
Dr. Robert Tyler Braun, assistant professor of population health sciences, joined Alan Weil, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, to discuss his recent research article, “The Role of Real Estate Investment...
A Medicare system that is meant to assess and incentivize healthcare quality with pay adjustments may not be working as intended, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.
In the...
Hospice facilities have traditionally operated as nonprofit organizations, but there has been a sharp rise in private equity (PE) firms and publicly traded corporations (PTC) acquiring hospice facilities...
Professional ethics require physicians to put their patients’ interests ahead of their own and allocate limited medical resources efficiently. Insight into physicians’ adherence to these principles requires...
Although there is much variation in the prices commercial insurers pay physicians, it has been unclear if higher prices are associated with higher quality of care. Dr. Amelia Bond, assistant professor...
Research links physician burnout with self-reported errors and career satisfaction, but less is known about the impact of burnout on patient care outcomes. In a study led by Dr. Lawrence Casalino, professor...
Anesthesiology prices jump significantly after medical facilities contract with corporate physician management companies – especially those backed by private equity firms – and threaten to hike patient...
Nursing homes acquired by private equity companies saw an increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations among long-stay residents and an uptick in Medicare costs, according to a new study from...
Dr. Dhruv Khullar of Weill Cornell Medicine and health economist Dr. Jason Hockenberry of Yale School of Public Health speak about Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) on the JAMA Health...
Physicians who care for the most socially disadvantaged patients were more likely to receive lower scores in a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program that financially rewards high-value...
This issue of the Annals of Family Medicine includes multiple articles reporting early information from the implementation of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) initiative EvidenceNOW:...
A new research center launches today with the goal of empowering and supporting practicing physicians as they seek to improve care for their patients while navigating today’s complex healthcare landscape....