Battling the Chargemaster: A Simple Remedy to Balance Billing for Unavoidable Out-of-Network Care
April 28th 2017The authors propose a simple legal mechanism to combat chargemaster abuses and encourage provider price competition. This solution is superior to prevailing legislative and regulatory responses to surprise out-of-network bills.
Real-World Evidence and the Behavioral Economics of Physician Prescribing
April 28th 2017The complex interplay of behavioral economics may result in reimbursement methodology alternatives to the prevailing fee-for-service payment system having less impact on prescribing behavior than has been conjectured.
The Breathmobile Improves the Asthma Medication Ratio and Decreases Emergency Department Utilization
April 13th 2017An examination of the asthma medication ratio (≥0.50) as an informative metric in program evaluation and for healthcare organizations to measure quality of care provided to patients with asthma.
Can Primary Care Physicians Accurately Predict the Likelihood of Hospitalization in Their Patients?
April 12th 2017This study demonstrates that the predictive accuracy of primary care physicians’ assessment of future hospitalization risk is comparable to commonly used quantitative risk stratification instruments.