Download or read book Measuring Physician Practice Patterns with Medicare Data written by Sally Trude and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the feasibility and potential usefulness of physician-level analyses to investigate the importance of individual physician practice patterns.
Download or read book Medicare written by A. Bruce Steinwald and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, & Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) directed a study of the compensation of physicians in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. This study explored linking physician compensation to efficiency -- defined as providing & ordering a level of services that is sufficient to meet a patient¿s health care needs but not excessive, given the patient¿s health status. This report: (1) estimates the prevalence in Medicare of physicians who are likely to practice inefficiently; (2) examines physician-focused strategies used by health care purchasers to encourage efficiency; & (3) examines the potential for CMS to profile physicians for efficiency & use the results. Includes recommendations. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Medicare written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) directed GAO to study the compensation of physicians in traditional fee-for service (FFS) Medicare. GAO explored linking physician compensation to efficiency-defined as providing and ordering a level of services that is sufficient to meet a patient's health care needs but not excessive, given the patient's health status. In this report, GAO (1) estimates the prevalence in Medicare of physicians who are likely to practice inefficiently, (2) examines physician-focused strategies used by health care purchasers to encourage efficiency, and (3) examines the potential for CMS to profile physicians for efficiency and use the results. To do this, GAO developed a methodology using 2003 Medicare claims data to compare generalist physicians' Medicare practices with those of their peers in 12 metropolitan areas. GAO also examined 10 health care purchasers that profile physicians for efficiency.
Download or read book The Impact of Data Feedback on Physician Practice Patterns written by Gilad J. Kuperman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician Profiling written by Neil F. Piland and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1999-06-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many health care leaders believe that defining and measuringphysician work efforts and linking those efforts to practical andmeasurable clinical outcomes-physician profiling-will not onlyimprove patient satisfaction and increase the quality of care, itwill revolutionize the health care industry. Physician Profilingbrings together twenty-one of the nation's most prominent physicianresearchers and executive medical group administrators, givinghealth care leaders and physician practice administrators the toolsthey need to evaluate and implement a physician profiling system,unlocking this powerful technique for use in their ownorganizations. "Reducing clinical variation among physicians is the name of thegame in improving health care. This book provides an overview thatyou shouldn't miss of the state-of-the-art in this rapidlydeveloping field."--Dean C. Coddington, principal, McManisAssociates and author, Making Integrated Health Care Work
Download or read book Protocols and Individualized Treatments written by Eric Arthur Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ensuring Quality Cancer Care written by National Cancer Policy Board and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-08-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will receive medical care of the highest quality. Even as new scientific breakthroughs are announced, though, many cancer patients may be getting the wrong care, too little care, or too much care, in the form of unnecessary procedures. How close is American medicine to the ideal of quality cancer care for every person with cancer? Ensuring Quality Cancer Care provides a comprehensive picture of how cancer care is delivered in our nation, from early detection to end-of-life issues. The National Cancer Policy Board defines quality care and recommends how to monitor, measure, and extend quality care to all people with cancer. Approaches to accountability in health care are reviewed. What keeps people from getting care? The book explains how lack of medical coverage, social and economic status, patient beliefs, physician decision-making, and other factors can stand between the patient and the best possible care. The board explores how cancer care is shaped by the current focus on evidence-based medicine, the widespread adoption of managed care, where services are provided, and who provides care. Specific shortfalls in the care of breast and prostate cancer are identified. A status report on health services research is included. Ensuring Quality Cancer Care offers wide-ranging data and information in clear context. As the baby boomers approach the years when most cancer occurs, this timely volume will be of special interest to health policy makers, public and private healthcare purchasers, medical professionals, patient advocates, researchers, and people with cancer.
Download or read book Changing Physician Practice Patterns written by Elaine Zablocki and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource provides a concise overview of the techniques used to change physician behavior in a health industry ruled by newly-formed networks & under increasing pressure to remain cost-efficient, often in a capitated environment.Techniques used by managed care organizations from across the country will be highlighted.Topical summaries on key issues will include how to develop practice guidelines, how to win physician support, data gathering, liability issues, & probably most important, how to get started.
Download or read book Medicare written by A. Bruce Steinwald and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the per capita methodology for profiling physicians -- a method which measures a patient's resource use over a fixed period of time and attributes that resource use to physicians -- in order to assist with the development of a physician feedback approach. It examines: (1) the extent to which physicians in selected specialties show stable practice patterns and how beneficiary utilization of services varies by physician resource use level; (2) factors to consider in developing feedback reports on physicians' performance, incl. per capita resource use; and (3) the extent to which feedback reports may influence physician behavior. This report focused on 4 medical specialties and 4 metro. areas chosen for their geographic diversity. Illustrations.
Download or read book Medicare Spending written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare Spending: Preliminary Findings Regarding an Approach Focusing on Physician Practice Patterns to Foster Program Efficiency
Download or read book The Role of Physician Practice Patterns in Within DRG Cost Variation written by Janet B. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare Focus on Physician Practice Patterns Can Lead to Greater Program Efficiency written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare physician fees geographic adjustment indices are valid in design but data and methods need refinement report to congressional committees written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population Based Utilization Data Identifying Variations from Area to Area in Physician Practice Patterns written by Maryland. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Office of Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicare written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vital Signs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as well as their lack of consistency, compatibility, reliability, focus, and organization. To achieve better health at lower cost, all stakeholders - including health professionals, payers, policy makers, and members of the public - must be alert to what matters most. What are the core measures that will yield the clearest understanding and focus on better health and well-being for Americans? Vital Signs explores the most important issues - healthier people, better quality care, affordable care, and engaged individuals and communities - and specifies a streamlined set of 15 core measures. These measures, if standardized and applied at national, state, local, and institutional levels across the country, will transform the effectiveness, efficiency, and burden of health measurement and help accelerate focus and progress on our highest health priorities. Vital Signs also describes the leadership and activities necessary to refine, apply, maintain, and revise the measures over time, as well as how they can improve the focus and utility of measures outside the core set. If health care is to become more effective and more efficient, sharper attention is required on the elements most important to health and health care. Vital Signs lays the groundwork for the adoption of core measures that, if systematically applied, will yield better health at a lower cost for all Americans.
