By Gerald Tracy
This year, much attention is appropriately being focused on improving health equity—both in access and quality of care provided. True…
With Richard Averill, MS, Richard Fuller, MS, Ron Mills, PhD
Health care expenditures continue to steadily increase with hospital stays making up about one-third of health care expenditures. A well-functioning…
By Matt Gallivan
Health economist Uwe Reinhardt famously declared in 2003 that if you want to address higher spending on health care in…
By Matt Gallivan
During this period of renewed reflection concerning inequality in America, we must admit that our health care system continues to…
By Richard Fuller, MS
In a prior blog, we highlighted the results of our research into patient outcomes, potentially preventable admissions (PPAs) and emergency…
Published by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, March 2019.
Maryland’s Quality programs must measure and reward better quality…
With Richard Fuller, MS, Jack Hughes, MD, Norbert Goldfield, MD, Richard Averill, MS
Published by the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, April 2018.
In 2016 the U.S. Congress directed…
Published by the State of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
This report uses data from July 2016 to June…
Published by the Society of Actuaries, October 2018,
by William Bednar, Joshua Axene, Richard Liliedahl, MD
Research report analyzing the…
By Norbert Goldfield, MD, Richard Fuller, MS
Everyone, except for the measurement industry, seems to agree that we have too many metrics1 for measuring performance. An increasing…
Published by the State of Mississippi Office of the Governor, Division of Medicaid
by Myers and Stauffer, Certified Public Accountants…
Published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine
by JoAnna K. Leyenaar, MD, MPH, MSc, Shawn L. Ralston, MD, MA, MS, …
