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Medicare Rewards for Process, Patient Satisfaction Not Always Linked to Better Outcomes
The movement to improve hospital quality has long assumed that close adherence to best medical practices leads to better outcomes. But a Modern Healthcare analysis of Medicare's first stabs at rewarding hospitals that do well on process-of-care measures and a patient-satisfaction survey while penalizing hospitals with high readmission rates shows only a minor correlation between the two.
The analysis, which uses Medicare's initial results for the value-based purchasing and readmissions reduction programs, also shows that hundreds of hospitals that did well in one program were penalized in the other. Dozens of hospitals that got the highest marks for avoiding readmissions were heavily penalized for their performance on process and patient satisfaction, while dozens more that received the maximum penalty for high 30-day readmission rates got high marks on key processes and attention to patients.
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Source: ModernHealthcare.com
"The Barriers Are Real": Antoine Keller, MD, on Geography and Cardiovascular Health
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Varied Access: The Pharmacogenetic Testing Coverage Divide
February 18th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the February 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to uncover significant differences in coverage decisions for pharmacogenetic tests across major US health insurers.
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Health Equity & Access Weekly Roundup: April 14, 2025
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