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A senior woman with a walker opens mail in her mailroom. When Medicare Advantage beneficiaries are denied coverage for ...

During the pandemic, five countries maintained high childhood vaccination rates for polio and MMR near or above the herd ...

2013 AHCJ Reporting Fellow on Health Care Performance, Senior Writer, The Record (North Jersey Media Group) ...

Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are a critical component of assessing whether clinicians are improving the health of patients. Unlike process measures, which capture provider productivity ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

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Summary: Prices for health care services vary significantly among providers, even for common procedures, and it's often difficult for patients to determine their out-of-pocket costs before receiving ...

Summary: Hospital at home programs that enable patients to receive acute care at home have proven effective in reducing complications while cutting the cost of care by 30 percent or more, leading to ...