Our Publications

In this poster from the Academy Health Annual Conference, Ng et al present findings that Hospitals and physician groups that enroll in outpatient spine episodes tend to have higher baseline volumes of outpatient spine surgery.

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care.

This article is written by Joshua Liao and Amol Navathe in response to the latest developments in policy and research affecting accountable care. Other authors will contribute to the series as well.

Additional articles will be published throughout 2023. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. 

In this Viewpoint, Dr. Amol Navathe and John Connolly describe how and why cross-market mergers are different than prototypical within-market mergers in their effects on patients and communities, why the trend toward cross-market mergers may be accelerating, and future policy and research directions.

This cohort study and difference-in-differences analysis of PGPs and hospital participation in BPCI found that bundled payments were associated with cost savings for surgical episodes for PGPs, and savings for both surgical and medical episodes for hospitals. Policy makers should consider the comparative performance of participant types when designing and evaluating bundled payment models.

This article discusses where bundled payment policy currently stands and what is likely ahead given trends over the last decade. 

This work examines Medicare's End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) Model and reviews the efficacy of this model as policy implementation. 

A comment and response dialoguing with a recently published viewpoint suggesting that bundled payments represent a promising part of payment reform.

The study results suggest that low-value care is less common in Medicare Advantage than Traditional Medicare, with elements of insurance design present in Medicare Advantage associated with fewer low-value services.