Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem without reducing the growth…
Background: Data are lacking on the proportion of
physicians who face malpractice claims in a year, the size of those
claims, and the…
States have banned smoking in workplaces, restaurants, and bars. They have increased tobacco tax rates, extended “clean air” laws, and…
Background: With the introduction of Part D drug benefits, Medicare began to collect information on diagnoses, treatments, and clinical…
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure…
Medicare bases its risk adjustment method for Medicare Advantage plan payment on the relative costs of treating various diagnoses in…
We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), which…
Context: Twenty-five years ago, private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare program with the stated dual aims of (1) giving…
Although US health care expenditures reached 17.6 percent of GDP in 2009, quality measurement in this important service sector remains…