Quality

Forum Session — April 20, 2012
Bundled Payment in Medicare: Promise, Peril, and Practice
Author: Kathryn Linehan

Forum Session — March 30, 2012
Caesar’s Ghost: The Effect of the Rising Rate of C-Sections on Health Care Costs and Quality
Authors: Jessamy Taylor & Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum Session — February 24, 2012
Mission Possible II: Reducing Health Care Costs Through Administrative Simplification
Author: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum Session — December 16, 2011
Bridging the Silos: Care Coordination for Kids with Serious Behavioral Health Conditions
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — December 2, 2011
Mission Possible? Saving on Health Care Costs by Reducing Unnecessary Services
Author: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum Session — October 28, 2011
Preventing Hospital Readmissions: How Can Care Transitions for Medicare Beneficiaries Be Improved?
Author: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Special Briefing — October 14, 2011
Reengineering Health Care Delivery: What Lies Ahead?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — September 23, 2011
Who’s Using Whom? Experience with User Fee Programs at FDA
Author: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Background Paper No. 82 — September 14, 2011
Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Public Policy
Author: Rob Cunningham, Consultant

Forum Session — June 24, 2011
Tiered Provider Networks: Steps to Cost Containment?
Author: Kathryn Linehan

Site Visit — May 31–June 2, 2011
Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows: Efforts to Improve Health and Reduce Costs in Denver
Authors: Michele J. Orza, ScD & Jessamy Taylor

Forum Session — May 20, 2011
Medicare's Vision of Accountable Care Organizations: Will Providers Have the Same View?
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — April 8, 2011
Pioneering Transformation: Treating Chronic and Complex Disease in Underserved Areas
Author: Lisa Sprague

Issue Brief No. 842 — March 30, 2011
The Hospitalist: Better Value in Inpatient Care?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — March 18, 2011
Caring for Patients with Advanced and Serious Illnesses: Changing Medical Practice and Patient Expectations
Author: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum Session — January 21, 2011
Oral Health Update: Ten Years After the Surgeon General’s Report
Author: Jessamy Taylor

Forum Session — December 10, 2010
Insurer-Provider Payment Negotiations: Implications for Health Spending
Author: Mary Ellen Stahlman

Forum Session — November 18, 2010
Pioneering Transformation: Technology, Data, and Safety Net Outcomes
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — October 22, 2010
Calls for Patient-Centered Care: Physician and Hospital Response
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — October 1, 2010
Patient-Centered Care: What Consumers and Families Want
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — July 16, 2010
Focus on Reform: Health Care Safety Net-Related Provisions
Author: Jessamy Taylor

Forum Session — June 25, 2010
Focus on Reform: Public Health Provisions
Authors: Jessamy Taylor & Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum Session — June 11, 2010
Incorporating Innovations in Health Care: Workforce Implications
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — April 16, 2010
Transforming Health Care Delivery: Insights from the New Orleans Safety Net
Authors: Jessamy Taylor & Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum Session — March 19, 2010
CHIPRA One Year Later: Where Does Implementation Stand?
Author: Judith D. Moore

Small-Group Session — July 17, 2009
Encouraging Cost-Reducing Innovations in Health Care: New Technology Apps, New Business Models
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — June 5, 2009
Building the Medical Home: Under Construction in the States
Author: Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — April 17 & August 7, 2009
Coordinating Care for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions: The Guided Care Model and Other Innovative Approaches
Authors: Judith D. Moore & Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum Session — April 3, 2009
Promising Models of Care Coordination for Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Getting Closer to the Holy Grail?
Author: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum Session — March 27, 2009
Coordinating Care for Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Searching for the Holy Grail
Author: Carol V. O'Shaughnessy

Forum Session — November 14, 2008
A Tale of Three Cities: Local Health Care Markets and Health Care Reform
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — October 30, 2008
Exploring Comparative Effectiveness: Fundamentals and Controversies of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Author: Michele J. Orza, ScD

Forum Session — October 28, 2008
Building the Medical Home: Surveying the Floor Plans
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — August 1, 2008
Medicare's Hospice Benefit: In the Spotlight
Author: Mary Ellen Stahlman

The Basics — July 30, 2008
Medicare Demonstrations
Author: Amanda Cassidy, Consultant

Background Paper No. 63 — July 22, 2008
The Fundamentals of Medicare Demonstrations
Author: Amanda Cassidy, Consultant

Forum Session — June 27, 2008
Building the Medical Home: Evaluating the Blueprints
Author: Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — March 16–18, 2008
Competition and Collaboration, Chicago-Style
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — March 7, 2008
The Physician Group Practice Demo: Where Do We Take What We've Learned?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — November 9, 2007
Shampoo, Sunscreen, and Strep Tests: The Retail Approach to Primary Care
Author: Lisa Sprague

Small-Group Session — September 14, 2007
Practicing in Groups: The Way to Quality and Efficiency?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Issue Brief No. 825 — September 10, 2007
Physician Profiling: Can Medicare Paint an Accurate Picture?
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — July 13, 2007
What Can Physician Profiling Do for Medicare?
Author: Laura A. Dummit

Forum Session — April 13, 2007
Children's Health Care Quality: Time to Grow Up?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — April 3–5, 2007
Competition and Collaboration: The Spirit of St. Louis
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Technical Paper — April 4, 2007
Review of Access and Quality of Care in SCHIP Using Standardized National Performance Measures
Author: Lee Partridge, Consultant

Site Visit — April 18–20, 2006
LA Story: Improving Care Management for the Chronically Ill and Chronically Underserved
Authors: Eileen Salinsky & Jessamy Taylor

Special Briefing — April 5, 2006
Improving Care Management in Los Angeles: A Site Visit Overview
Authors: Eileen Salinsky, Jessamy Taylor & Judith D. Moore

Forum Session — March 14, 2006
Caring for “Ryan White”: Balancing Quality, Access, Equity, and Finite Resources
Author: Jessamy Taylor

Site Visit — December 4–6, 2005
Redesigning Practice to Improve Care Delivery (Boston)
Authors: Laura A. Dummit & Lisa Sprague

Background Paper — August 22, 2005
Caring for "Ryan White": The Fundamentals of HIV/AIDS Treatment Policy
Author: Jessamy Taylor

Site Visit — August 5, 2005
Keeping Track of Care: Quality and Technology at LifeBridge Health System (Baltimore)
Authors: Judith D. Moore & Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — May 20, 2005
Charting the Quality Roadmap: A Conversation with Mark McClellan
Author: Lisa Sprague

Issue Brief No. 802 — May 6, 2005
Hospital Oversight in Medicare: Accreditation and Deeming Authority
Author: Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — December 9–10, 2004
Quality Improvement in Maryland: Partnerships and Progress
Authors: Judith D. Moore & Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — July 9, 2004
Paying for Performance in Health Care: Getting a Better Deal?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — May 24–25, 2004
The Economics of Quality: Changing Incentives in Cincinnati
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Nora Super

Issue Brief No. 796 — April 1, 2004
Veterans' Health Care: Balancing Resources and Responsibilities
Author: Lisa Sprague

Site Visit — November 6–7, 2003
Rural Health Care in the Electronic Age (Danville, PA)
Authors: Lisa Sprague & Nora Super

Forum Session — June 12, 2003
Disease Management to Population-Based Health: Steps in the Right Direction?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Issue Brief No. 791 — May 16, 2003
Disease Management to Population-Based Health: Steps in the Right Direction?
Author: Lisa Sprague

Forum Session — February 12, 2003
Pursuing Perfection in Health Care Delivery: Insights from Innovators
Author: Lisa Sprague

Issue Brief No. 786 — November 22, 2002
Depression: A Decade of Progress, More to Do
Author: Veronica V. Goff, Consultant

Issue Brief No. 745 — July 20, 1999
Mental Health Coverage Parity: Separating Wheat from Chaff
Author: Karl Polzer

Forum Session — July 20, 1999
Mental Health Coverage Parity: Separating Wheat from Chaff
Author: Karl Polzer