Care Quality and Cost: Why Poor Quality can Cost Moreby
Steve Beller
concerning healthcare quality (care effectiveness/results) as it relates to healthcare costs... and improving quality and controlling costs, and will now share some thoughts in the context of her interesting...
Adjusting Blocks by Day of the Weekby
Dr. Ian Furst
When patients are making requests to have a procedure on a certain day of the week how should you adjust the schedule in block booking? In our office we keep a uniform number of block available...
Measuring Variation in Labor Costs for the NHSby
Jason S.costs.
However, the U.S. isn’t the only country where public health agencies adjust payments based on labor costs. For the past 30 years, England’s Staff Market Forces Factor (MFF) adjusts National Health...
Risk Adjustment Modelsby
Jason S.
determine a potential enrollee’s premium. Providers can use risk adjustment to identify likely high cost...
Risk adjustment is important for many aspects of health care. Medicare uses risk adjustment...