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The Effect Of Physicians’ Electronic Access To Tests

Submitted by jonpearce on Tue, 2012-03-13 09:05

There has been a pretty interesting debate about the effect of EHRs on healthcare costs as a result of the initial Health Affairs article, which described a positive (not negative) correlation between EHR use and healthcare costs.  The most recent Health Affairs article replies to a posting by the National Coordinator for Health IT, who tried to debunk the major conclusions of the Health Affairs article.  I took note of the las

Risk Adjustments and Bundled Payments

Submitted by jonpearce on Thu, 2012-02-09 09:50

The CMS guidelines for the Medicare bundled payment initiative suggest that CMS will be receptive to the use of risk adjustments in establishing the episode payment budget for DRGs to be paid under this program.  This prompted the Singletrack Analytics research team to fire up its HCC grouper to explore how risk adjustment might be integrated into a bundled payment process.