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April 1, 2004 | Program Result
From 2002 to 2003, the Medicare Rights Center, New York, created and began pilot testing Medicare Interactive, a comprehensive online Medicare counseling, training and assistance system that primarily helps community-based agencies access health care benefits and services for their elderly and disabled clients.
September 12, 2012 | Journal Article
In the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD), 10 accountable care organization (ACO) physician groups were eligible to receive a portion of savings generated if they also showed improvement on 32 quality measures. The Centers for Me ...
June 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This issue of Legal Notes explains the Affordable Care Act's provisions to expand CMS' authority to release Medicare claims data to Qualified Entities (QEs) for the purposes of evaluating and publicly reporting the performance of providers and suppliers.
June 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has expanded existing efforts and has authorized new tools for quality measurement and reporting for the Medicare program. This issue of Legal Notes highlights the implications that these new ef ...
April 22, 2011 | Report
Analysis explores implementation of the Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
April 12, 2011 | Report
Chronicallyill Medicare patients spent fewer days in the hospital and received more hospice care in 2007 than they did in 2003, but at the same time there was an increase in the intensity of care for patients who were hospitalized, according to a Dartmouth Atlas Project report.
November 16, 2010 | Report
Report shows that many challenges remain to improving the care of patients with serious, life-limiting illness.
September 9, 2010 | Report
Meeting the nation’s primary care needs is more than a numbers game. A new report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project shows that neither higher amounts of primary care services, nor making sure patients routinely see a primary care clinician is, by its ...
March 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Community groups such as those in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative have been using private medical claims data to measure and publically report on the performance of doctors. But another vast pool of inform ...
May 25, 2011 | Journal Article
A study measuring the relationship between the adult primary care physician workforce and patient outcomes found that a more concentrated physician workforce was usually associated with better patient outcomes.