Health Affairs

Editor’s Note: In the post below, John Wennberg and Shannon Brownlee discuss the controversy over a proposed study of regional variations in Medicare spending. Wennberg and Brownlee rebut claims that spending and utilization variations among academic medical centers are due to differences in patient income, race, and health status. In another post coming next week,... Read the rest of this entry »

Editor’s Note: In addition to John Wennberg and Shannon Brownlee (photos and bios above), authors of this post include James Weinstein, MS, DO, and Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH. Weinstein is chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Fisher is Director of the Center for Population Health at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and... Read the rest of this entry »