Understanding the role of prenatal care in maternal and infant well-being will require developing more meaningful quality metrics, leveraging new data sources, and finding new and creative ways to conduct evaluations with careful attention to selection bias. Read More >>
Despite expectations that Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) would curb health care spending, their effect has been modest. One possible explanation is that ACOs’ inability to prohibit out-of-network care
limits their control over spending. To examine this possibility, Sunny Lin and coauthors looked at the association between out-of-network care and per beneficiary spending using national Medicare data for 2012–15. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Law Enforcement And Trauma Care
When health care and law enforcement intersect in trauma care, which rules apply? This Health Affairs Blog post argues that, “while challenging, developing policy to extend cross-disciplinary collaboration within emergency department settings in a way that protects the rights and well-being of patients, health care providers, and the public is an ethical imperative.”
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