Value-Based Payment
May Articles & Reports Roundup
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 2, 2015
Greetings! For the academics among us, its time to wrap up your end of the year grading and see what you’ve been missing in the literature this month. Two themes came out of the literature in May. First, (no surprise to anyone) the American public continues to be frustrated with the lack of transparency and rationality in healthcare prices, but there are some signs of hope. Second, policymakers and academics have proposed numerous payment reforms, which despite their varying degrees of success, only get at a fraction of the problem. …
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Academic Articles and Reports Roundup: June 2014
Jaime S. King, Executive Editor June 30, 2014
Articles and Reports Round Up: June 2014 Greetings! In this installment of the Articles and Reports Round Up are the Source’s pick reads from the academic literature and policy reports from June 2014. Academic Articles Health Affairs’ June issue, titled The Economics of Health Care: Costs, Savings, and Value (be still our hearts), had two lead articles on healthcare consolidation and costs (Ginsburg and Pawlson, and Sage) followed by two commentaries. All four are well worth reading. Paul Ginsburg and Gregory Pawlson’s article, Seeking Lower Prices Where Providers Are Consolidated: An …
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