This discussion paper is part of the National Academy of Medicine's Emerging Stronger After
COVID-19: Priorities for Health System Transformation initiative, which commissioned …

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has greatly impacted medical services
worldwide. In addition to changing the processes used by hospital medical services, it has …

Abstract The Coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic reduced real and perceived access to
healthcare services, exacerbating pandemic fear, and thus influencing consumers' adoption …

Context Across the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and
Development, policy makers are searching for new ways to pay hospitals for inpatient care …

Rural health providersface numerous well-documented challenges in their efforts to manage
population health. 1 With unprecedented changes necessitated by the novel coronavirus …

Importance Since 2014, all hospitals in Maryland have operated under an all-payer global
budget system. Hospital global budgets have gained renewed attention as a strategy for …

Purpose To examine whether hospital closure is associated with high levels of area
socioeconomic disadvantage and racial/ethnic minority composition. Methods Pooled cross …

The widespread consolidation of health systems, hospitals, and physicians has contributed
to the high price of healthcare across the United States. While federal antitrust enforcers …

Medicare's Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Investment Model (AIM) provided up-front
funding to forty-one small, rurally located ACOs to encourage their participation in the …

Purpose We sought to determine whether colorectal cancer surgery can be done safely at
rural hospitals. The current study compared outcomes among rural patients who underwent …