While overall Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) enrollment has grown more rapidly than fee-for-service Medicare enrollment, changes in the growth and characteristics of different enrollee populations have not been [...]
The decision of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to launch the mandatory Radiation Oncology (RO) model in 2022 will accelerate specialist enrollment in advanced alternative payments [...]
Doximity, Inc, the leading digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released its fifth annual Physician Compensation Report. The study – which surveyed more than 46,000 full-time U.S. physicians for [...]
The Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index predicts 30-day all-cause mortality in patients with COVID-19 using age, sex and pre-existing comorbidity diagnoses. The VACO Index was initially developed and [...]
Researchers at the Commonwealth Fund and CareJourney analyzed changes in monthly spending by the traditional Medicare program between January and October 2020. The new data show how traditional Medicare [...]
Frailty is a debilitating and increasingly costly condition in an elderly population equating to nearly $7.6 billion in Medicare spending in 2016. Understanding the burden of frailty and how [...]
This pre-print examines the performance of the VACO Index using data from Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and national Medicare data overall, over time, and within important patient subgroups. [...]
Of the numerous disruptions to health care delivery forced upon us by COVID-19, the push toward virtual care and remote work may be the longest lasting. But this new [...]