Academies Completes Work on Social Risk Factors in Health Care
Completing its assignment from the U.S. Department of Health and [...]
New Study: Social Risk Factors Affect Provider Performance and Patient Outcomes
Medicare patients with social risk factors fare worse than others [...]
Social Determinants and Health Care
Amid growing recognition that social factors play at least much [...]
More Evidence Supports Shortcomings of Medicare Readmissions Penalties
A new study supports the belief that Medicare’s hospital readmissions [...]
Academies Continues Work on Socio-Economic Risk Adjustment
In the latest aspect of its research on socio-economic status [...]
A New Approach to Serving High-Cost, High-Need, High-Risk Medicaid Patients
A partnership consisting of a county government, a public hospital, [...]
New Study Questions 30-Day Readmissions as Measure of Hospital Quality
Hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge may not be [...]
Foundation Looks at Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
In a new issue brief, the Commonwealth Fund has identified [...]
Senate May Tackle Socio-economic Risk Adjustment
With a House bill to adjust Medicare payment penalties based [...]
Hospital Group Models Risk-Adjusted Medicare Readmissions
The Missouri Hospital Association has published data that demonstrates that [...]
