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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
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IN THE JOURNAL
QUALITY OF CARE
By Amol S. Navathe, Kevin G. Volpp, Amelia M. Bond, Kristin A. Linn, Kristen L. Caldarella, Andrea B. Troxel, Jingsan Zhu, Lin Yang, Shireen E. Matloubieh, Elizabeth E. Drye, Susannah M.
Bernheim, Emily Oshima Lee, Mark Mugiishi, Kimberly Takata Endo, Justin Yoshimoto, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Amol Navathe and coauthors report on a cluster-randomized controlled trial they conducted with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii to investigate the effects of three types of feedback as mechanisms to improve health care quality: feedback on the physician’s own performance, feedback that included comparison to peers, and peer comparisons feedback combined with a financial incentive tied to outcomes. Read More >>
Improving The Accuracy Of Hospital Quality Ratings By Focusing On The Association Between Volume And Outcome
By Laurent G. Glance, Caroline P. Thirukumaran, Yue Li, Shan Gao, and Andrew W. Dick
Laurent Glance and coauthors explore the complex topic of how to measure quality in smaller hospitals, where low case volumes can yield wide year-to-year fluctuations in outcomes. The authors demonstrate the
viability of various approaches to combining individual hospital results with national performance of similar-size hospitals. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Maternity Care The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires employer-based insurance plans to cover maternity services, but plans are allowed to impose cost sharing such as copayments and deductibles for these services. A study by Michelle H. Moniz and coauthors in Health Affairs aimed to evaluate trends in cost sharing for maternity care among working women in employer-based plans, before and after the ACA.
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