With Richard Averill, MS, Richard Fuller, MS, Ron Mills, PhD
While there is increasing consensus that comparative mortality data should be included in hospital payment incentive systems, attempts to develop…
With L. Gordon Moore, MD, Richard Averill, MS, Ron Mills, PhD
Early COVID-19 studies indicate that when older people contract the virus, they have a poorer prognosis, especially those 80 years…
Published by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, March 2019.
Maryland’s Quality programs must measure and reward better quality…
Published by Texas Health and Human Services
Potentially preventable events are encounters, which could be prevented, that lead to unnecessary…
With L. Gordon Moore, MD
Sometimes ideas for healthcare reform can morph into problematic policies that inadvertently drive up costs and erode quality. What happens…
By L. Gordon Moore, MD
Good ideas can morph into problematic policies that drive up costs and erode quality. Take diabetes as an example. We…
Published by the State of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
This report uses data from July 2016 to June…
Published in the Journal of Medical Systems, March 2018,
by McCormick PJ, Lin HM, Deiner SG, Levin MA.
The…
Explore how precise capture of severity-of-illness and risk-of-mortality measures impact quality outcomes and reimbursement.…
Published by the State of Mississippi Office of the Governor, Division of Medicaid
by Myers and Stauffer, Certified Public Accountants…
Published by Society of Actuaries (SOA)
by Geof Hileman, FSA, MAAA, Spenser Steele
The Society of Actuaries is pleased to…
With Richard Fuller, MS, Norbert Goldfield, MD
Published in Population Health Management
by Richard L. Fuller, John S. Hughes, and Norbert I. Goldfield
Risk adjustment accounts for…