The American journal of managed care
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Healthcare providers should revisit disaster response policies to incorporate telemedicine systems to address some of the unique challenges posed by infectious disease outbreaks such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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The Patient-Driven Payment Model addresses perverse incentives in Medicare's previous payment system for skilled nursing facilities, but it includes new incentives that may be problematic.
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Comment
Response to "e-Consult implementation success: lessons from 5 county-based delivery systems".
Partnering teams for delivery of continuity of care between primary care and community behavioral health systems can learn from e-consult implementation.
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Understanding variation in spending across organizations, rather than across geographic areas, is important because care is delivered by organizations and interventions increasingly focus on organizations. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are particularly important to study given their incentives to reduce spending. Analyzing spending differences across ACOs may help identify cost savings opportunities. ⋯ By extending the variations literature to focus on ACOs, we illustrated that meaningful further savings opportunities exist both within and across markets.
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This study used coarsened exact matching to assess the ability of the LACE+ index to predict adverse outcomes after plastic surgery. ⋯ The results of this study demonstrate that the LACE+ index may be suitable as a prediction model for patient outcomes in a plastic surgery population.