Todd Caldis
Todd Caldis
This study employs exploratory factor analysis and scale construction methods with commercial Health Plan Employers Data Information Set (HEDISS) process of care and outcome measures from 1999 to uncover evidence for a unidimensional compos...
Christopher M Murtaugh,Timothy Peng,Hakan Aykan et al.
Christopher M Murtaugh et al.
Risk adjustment is a critical tool in public reporting of quality measures. Its aim is to level the playing field so that providers serving different patients can be meaningfully compared. We used a theory and evidence-based approach to dev...
Mary Laschober,Myles Maxfield,Suzanne Felt-Lisk et al.
Mary Laschober et al.
Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey conducted for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to foc...
Disenrollment information and Medicare plan choice: is more information better? [0.03%]
退约信息与医疗保险计划选择：越多的信息越好吗？
Mark D Spranca,Marc N Elliott,Rebecca Shaw et al.
Mark D Spranca et al.
To help Medicare beneficiaries and their intermediaries select the best health plan, CMS publicly reports comparative plan information. Using a laboratory version of Medicare Health Plan Compare that involved a simulated plan choice by 359 ...
Testing consumers' comprehension of quality measures using alternative reporting formats [0.03%]
使用替代报告格式测试消费者对质量措施的理解程度
Margaret Gerteis,Jessie S Gerteis,David Newman et al.
Margaret Gerteis et al.
CMS has publicly reported nursing home quality measures since 2002, but research has shown that many users do not understand them. Alternative visual displays may improve comprehension. We developed seven reporting templates in different fo...
Comparative Study
Health care financing review. 2007 Spring;28(3):31-45. DOI: 2007
Stephanie S Teleki,David E Kanouse,Marc N Elliott et al.
Stephanie S Teleki et al.
This article examines the reporting of Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPSO) consumer experience data by sponsors, those that fund data collection and decide how information is summarized and disseminated. We foun...
Suzanne Felt-Lisk,Allison Barrett,Rebecca Nyman
Suzanne Felt-Lisk
Transparency through public reporting of quality data is key to achieving the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) vision for 21st century health care. This article reviews the status of States' voluntary public reporting of Medicaid managed care ...
Bryan Dowd,Roger Feldman,John Nyman et al.
Bryan Dowd et al.
Recent policy discussions by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) regarding physician prices in the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare Program reflect movement toward a market pricing model. Earlier objectives such as s...
Gerald Riley,Carlos Zarabozo
Gerald Riley
Previous research has found Medicare risk contract enrollees to be healthier than beneficiaries in fee-for-service (FFS). Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) data were used to examine trends in health and functional status measures a...
End-of-life expenditures by Ohio Medicaid beneficiaries dying of cancer [0.03%]
俄亥俄州癌症患者医疗救助受益者的终末生命花费
Siran M Koroukian,Heather Beaird,Elizabeth Madigan et al.
Siran M Koroukian et al.
We evaluate the extent to which the Ohio Medicaid Program serves as a safety net to terminally ill cancer patients, and the costs associated with providing care to this patient population. Over a 10-year period, Ohio Medicaid served nearly ...