Research Highlight

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 Forum podcast. In a mixed-method study, Dr. Khullar and colleagues investigated the cost of participating in MIPS to physician practices, and Dr. Hockenberry wrote […]

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 care than physicians who care for more affluent populations, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. Understanding the factors driving this disparity is

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: Advancing Heart Health in Primary care. This $112 million initiative—one of the largest in AHRQ’s history—funds 7 cross-organizational collaborations to assist 1,500 small (fewer than 10