Health Affairs

Editor’s note: See additional posts discussing Pioneer accountable care organizations by Steven Lieberman and Douglas Hastings. We have commended the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on this blog in the past for actions regarding Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) – but we’ve also noted the need to establish strong enough criteria to ensure that... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s note: See additional posts on the Medicare Shared Savings Program Final Rule  and related delivery system and payment reform initiatives by Lawrence Casalino and Stephen Shortell,  Douglas Hastings, and Mark McClellan and Elliott Fisher, and Don Berwick and Richard Gilfillan. Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may have done what once... Read the rest of this entry »

If the last few months have made anything clear, it’s that the fiscal climate has changed and there are no longer any sacred cows.  Medicare and other essential health programs are on the chopping block, despite their immense popularity and the fact that they stand between life and death for millions of the most vulnerable... Read the rest of this entry »