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MassHealth’s P4P Program Fails to Produce
Conflicting with evidence from other studies, an evaluation of MassHealth’s Medicaid Pay-for-Performance plan failed to show a significant effect on quality improvement measures despite spending $2.6 million for incentives. Pay for Performance (P4P) is the concept of using financial incentives Continue Reading …
Trading Places
Americans are often pre-occupied worrying about people entering the United States across the Mexican border. Ever wonder if Mexicans worry about the nearly 2/3 of the border population that enters Mexico for health care? The 32 counties in Texas that Continue Reading …
Honoring our Veterans
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.” (Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865) Since 1946, the Veterans Health Administration has had a hand in the education of America’s physicians. According Continue Reading …
Health Care’s Environmental Footprint
The conversion from paper medical records to electronic medical records should help improve quality of care, reduce duplicative health care spending, and minimize unnecessary visits. But can it save the planet? Researchers from Kaiser Permanente sought to determine the potential Continue Reading …
Direct access to OB/GYNs
Many states require direct access to OB/GYN doctors on the theory that it will improve maternal and infant health. However, the current evidence demonstrates that direct access laws do not improve maternal or child health. The advent of managed care Continue Reading …