Using observation units in hospitals to provide care to certain patients can be more efficient
than admitting them to the hospital and can result in shorter lengths-of-stay and lower costs …

Hospital readmission measures have been touted not only as a quality measure but also as
a means to bend the healthcare cost curve. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the …

Importance The increasing intensity of diabetes mellitus management over the past decade
may have resulted in lower rates of hyperglycemic emergencies but higher rates of hospital …

Importance Medicare beneficiaries with cancer are at risk for financial hardship given
increasingly expensive cancer care and significant cost sharing by beneficiaries. Objectives …

We consider whether hospitals that receive higher payments from Medicare improve patient
outcomes, using exogenous variation in ambulance company assignment among patients …

Methods We conducted an analysis of an administrative claims database of US privately
insured and Medicare Advantage enrollees. We identified ED visits from 2005 through 2013 …

Importance Accountable care contracts hold physician groups financially responsible for the
quality and cost of health care delivered to patients. Focusing on clinically vulnerable …

Rationale: Efforts to reduce 30-day readmission have mostly concentrated on addressing
deficiencies in care transitions and outpatient management after discharge. There is …

Public reporting and payment programs in the United States have embraced thirty-day
readmissions as an indicator of between-hospital variation in the quality of care, despite …

An increasing number of emergency departments (EDs) are providing extended care and
monitoring for patients in EDOUs. 1 Reasons for the expansion of ED-based observation …