Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Patrick Fitzgerald, MPH
Mr. Fitzgerald currently works as an analyst for UCare, a Managed Care Organization serving Medicaid and Medicare recipients in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
Incentivizing health over fee-for-service
In 2006, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services started the Physician Quality Reporting System, or PQRS. PQRS operates on the premise that required reporting of specific delivery-of-care metrics will induce the necessary behavioral changes and infrastructural investment to better Continue Reading …
High Deductibles Reduce Cost
One answer to the increasing cost of health care is limiting utilization through patient cost shifting—exposing patients to a greater share of the financial risk of health care through (HDHP). HDHPs shift costs by requiring members to bear the full Continue Reading …
P4P bonuses don’t necessarily improve quality
Yet another study fails to provide evidence that pay-for-performance yields additional quality improvement. Pay-for-performance (P4P) continues as one of multiple experimental policies aimed at improving health care quality. Many studies of varying merit have scrutinized numerous aspects of P4P, but Continue Reading …
EHR Update: Hospitals (2013)
Less than half of the nation’s hospitals have met the criteria for meaningful use of electronic health records. The US health care system is undergoing a substantial overhaul to the way clinicians, clinics, and hospitals record, track, and share health Continue Reading …
EHR Update: Doctors (2013)
In 2009 the HITECH Act provided $30 billion to support the expansion of . In 2011, the Medicare EHR Incentive began providing payments to providers who adopted EHRs with a minimal set of “meaningful use” capabilities. Early indicators suggest these Continue Reading …
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