Most Recent Articles from Health Care Financing Review

• Redesigning the Medicare inpatient PPS to reduce payments to hospitals with high readmission rates 

  INTRODUCTION Pay for performance initiatives, which seek to link payment and quality, have until recently taken the form of financial rewards to...

  06/22/09 by Richard F. Averill; Elizabeth C. McCullough; John S. Hughes; Norbert I. Goldfield; James C. Vertrees; Richard L. Fuller · More from publication

• Estimating the costs of potentially preventable hospital acquired complications 

  INTRODUCTION With increasing medical care costs and a weakening economy more attention is being placed upon obtaining value from how health care...

  06/22/09 by Richard L. Fuller; Elizabeth C. McCullough; Mona Z. Bao; Richard F. Averill · More from publication

• Need for risk adjustment in adapting episode grouping software to Medicare data 

  INTRODUCTION Pay for Performance (P4P) can be broadly defined as "any type of performance-based provider payment arrangements including those...

  06/22/09 by Thomas MaCurdy; Jason Kerwin; Nick Theobald · More from publication

• Linking tumor registry and Medicaid claims to evaluate cancer care delivery 

  INTRODUCTION An enormous body of research demonstrates that disparities in health care based on socioeconomic status are pervasive. Identifying...

  06/22/09 by Deborah Schrag; Beth A. Virnig; Joan L. Warren · More from publication

• Medicare risk adjustment for the frail elderly 

  CMS has had a continuing interest in exploring ways to incorporate frailty adjustment into the CMS Hierarchical Condition Categories (CMS-HCC) risk...

  12/22/08 by John Kautter · More from publication

• Understanding and improving psychosocial services in long-term care 

  In this issue of the Health Care Financing Review, we present research that speaks to the importance of psychosocial care and its relationship to...

  12/22/08 by Sonya E. Bowen · More from publication

View more »