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June 4, 2013 | Journal Article
This article summarizes California’s Hospital Fair Pricing Act, which was passed in 2006 with the intent of protecting low-income uninsured patients from having to pay hospitals’ full billed charges.
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
When hospital service line profit goes down, mortality goes up.
March 19, 2013 | Issue Brief
This report looks at whether hospitals stand to gain more revenue under the ACA's Medicaid expansion compared with if no states expand Medicaid eligibility.
March 4, 2013 | Issue Brief
The National Commission on Physician Payment Reform studies new ways to improve patient outcomes, while reining in costs.
February 21, 2013 | Journal Article
Researchers raise significant questions about the risk adjustment that Medicare and others apply to insurance claims data.
February 5, 2013 | Program Result Report
Child First is a home-based early childhood intervention that works with the most vulnerable very young children and their families to reduce serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect.
September 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute furthered the development and pilot testing of its Prometheus bundled payment model. Researchers at RAND and the Harvard School of Public Health evaluated the initiative at three pilot sites.
February 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In late January, the nation’s second-largest health insurer announced a new initiative designed to improve care and reduce costs by raising reimbursements for primary care. WellPoint will provide additional revenue to primary care providers for “non ...
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Provisions of the Affordable Care Act offer extraordinary opportunities to insure many more people, reimburse previously unreimbursed services, integrate care using new information technology tools and treatment teams, confront complex chronic comorbidities, and adopt underused evidence-based interventions.
October 7, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Glenn A. Melnick, PhD.