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RWJF Advances Effort to Curb Overuse by Super-Utilizers

RWJF Advances Effort to Curb Overuse by Super-Utilizers

RWJF provided a grant of $2.1 million to six communities in its Aligning Forces for Quality initiative. Their task: to develop pilot programs to identify patients who make the most frequent hospital visits, and improve the care they receive outside of the hospital.

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State-Level Efforts to Reduce Costs

State Health Care Cost Containment Commission

State Health Care Cost Containment Commission

The RWJF-supported State Health Care Cost Containment Commission is working to develop practical state policies to contain health care costs.

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Unnecessary Care

Choosing Wisely

Choosing Wisely

Through an RWJF grant, Choosing Wisely is funding medical specialty societies and regional health improvement collaboratives to work in specific communities to raise awareness of potential overuse of medical care.

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Overuse

Doing Better by Doing Less

Doing Better by Doing Less

This RWJF-funded paper from the Urban Institute analyzes what is known about the provision of medically inappropriate and unnecessary services, while also assessing various approaches to tackle overuse.

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Aligning Forces for Quality

Better Care, Better Health, Lower Cost

Better Care, Better Health, Lower Cost

Avoidable hospitalizations in Cuyahoga County, Ohio—one of RWJF’s Aligning Forces for Quality communities—fell by nearly 3,000 for patients with common cardiovascular conditions, saving more than $20 million in health care costs.

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Research on Reducing Costs

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Finding Value in Health Care

This report from Avalere Health closely examines the efforts of 18 diverse medical professional societies to identify potential cost-cutting measures, and notes trends across the groups' recommendations.

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Reducing Costs by Investing in Quality

This study shows that reducing costs and improving quality are not mutually exclusive. Findings suggest that improving the quality of care for patients with diabetes saves money.

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Payment Reform

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Payment Matters: The ROI for Payment Reform

A suite of five briefs from RWJF examines employers’ pilot programs testing four approaches to payment reform.

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Report of the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform

This report from the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, funded in part through RWJF grants, studies new ways to improve patient outcomes, while reining in costs.

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Advancing Payment Reform

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AcademyHealth

Through an RWJF grant, AcademyHealth is looking into ways to advance payment and delivery reform activities.

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Employers and Cost

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Employers Can Influence Cost and Quality of Care

Employers have great—if, to date, underutilized—market leverage in buying health care. If fully engaged, they can push hospitals and health plans to improve care for their employees at a manageable cost.

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Blog Posts

When Doctors Compete, Everyone Wins

The cost of medical care should be as clear as the cost of groceries, says OkCopay founder and PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Touré McClus...

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RWJF DataHub

The RWJF DataHub tracks state-level data, and allows visitors to customize and visualize facts and figures.

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Blog Posts

Dementia’s Growing Cost to Caregivers

A recent RAND study offers some of the most comprehensive and credible estimates to date of the monetary costs of dementia in the United Sta...

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Blog Posts

‘Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.’

As we pause to remember the rich contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we should also reflect on how his legacy can be used to elimi...

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Blog Posts

Spending Money to Save Money in Health Care

Investing in programs that prevent chronic diseases would ultimately decrease the costly long-term expenditures driven by those diseases, As...

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Journal Article

Financial Impact of Community-Based Dental Education

This article on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Dental Pipeline program, presents evidence that community-based dental education (CBDE)...

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Journal Article

Medicare's Future

This paper proposes a national initiative for Medicare patients with cancer. New legislative authority will be needed for comparative effect...

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Journal Article

Designing High-Cost Medicine

Inspired by social medicine, some progressive U.S. health reforms have paradoxically reinforced a business model of high-cost medical delive...

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Issue Brief

More Nonelderly Americans Face Problems Affording Prescription Drugs

More children and working-age Americans are going without prescription drugs because of cost concerns, according to a new national study by ...

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Issue Brief

Access to Prescription Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries

Despite the introduction of a Medicare outpatient prescription drug benefit in January 2006, roughly the same proportion of elderly Medicare...

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Report

Health Insurance Fraud

An Overview

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Issue Brief

Premium Support in Medicare

The nation's fiscal crisis has renewed the focus on structural reform. Can a market-oriented solution cut costs and improve care?

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