Health Affairs

Primary Care: Proposed Solutions To The Physician Shortage Without Training More Physicians

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Mark D. Smith is president and CEO ...
Health Affairs

Housing Affordability And Children’s Cognitive Achievement

Sandra Newman ( [email protected]) is a professor of policy studies in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. C. Scott ...
Health Affairs

Gradual Rebalancing Of Medicaid Long-Term Services And Supports Saves Money And Serves More People, Statistical Model Shows

H. Stephen Kaye ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Health and Aging and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, both at the University of California, San ...
Opinion
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Modernizing The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Creating A Separate Conversion Factor For Primary Care

In this piece, we explore reasons for creating a separate conversion factor within the MPFS, initially for advanced primary care management codes and eventually for a prospective payment to cover a ...
Health Affairs

Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) gave the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) broad authority to test out new payment models that have the potential to reduce Medicare spending, as long as ...