Medicare initially focused on cost monitoring measures when thinking about quality assurance. However, it now aims to ensure beneficiaries receive high quality, safe, impartial, and effective ...

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Billions of dollars are being spent by the Department of Health and Human Services on three new federal programs that are essentially redundant, according to The Fiscal Times. The report cites a study ...

Over the past several decades, an appealing idea rapidly gained popularity: The government could advance a health care system that rewarded the quality of care rather than the volume of care. Medicare ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...