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September 25, 2012 | Journal Article
Traditional or fee-for-service Medicare has produced many innovations in the payment for health care services, while private insurance has produced a series of benefit design innovations.
April 1, 2005 | Program Result
In 2003 investigators at New England Medical Center Hospitals, Boston, collected four-year follow-up data from a cohort of Medicare beneficiaries under study since 1998 to examine differences in health outcomes related to physical and mental health and death for beneficiaries enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare versus those enrolled in Medicare HMOs.
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
From 1995 to 2003, the National Academy of Social Insurance convened seven study panels to examine issues pertaining to the restructuring of Medicare.
December 8, 2010 | Journal Article
Physician payment reform holds the potential to improve quality of care while controlling costs.
April 29, 2013 | Report
Experts recommend solutions for closing the gaps in quality and efficiency of health care.
April 18, 2013 | Report
The Bipartisan Policy Center recommends ways to contain health care spending while improving the quality and affordability of care.
October 11, 2012 | Issue Brief
"Pay-for-performance" programs are supposed to replace traditional fee-for-service care under the Affordable Care Act. Yet studies show pay-for-performance programs have yielded mixed results.
November 1, 2000 | Program Result
From 1991 to 1996, researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center compared outcomes among elderly patients in two types of health care settings.
May 17, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, print, broadcast and online media outlets are covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) scholars, fellows and grantees. Some recent examples: Alejandra Casillas, MD, MPH, an RWJF Clinical Scholar, ...
January 5, 2010 | Journal Article
Increasing clinician awareness of racial disparities and improving communication may enhance diabetes care among Black patients. This study evaluated the effect of cultural competency training and performance feedback for primary care clinicians on diabetes care for Black patients.