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Most relevant regions
Feb 22, 2021
The RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance summarizes the results of research on health care consolidation and presents lessons learned.
Research
Jul 18, 2017
About 60 % of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have some kind of end-of-life care planning processes in place, but only about 20% have established advanced planning processes.
Dec 11, 2015
The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme supports the development of innovative medical technologies. Rand Europe evaluated the programme to identify its outputs and impacts. This report is an extended summary of the full report.
Jun 11, 2015
The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme supports the development of innovative medical technologies. RAND Europe evaluated the programme to identify its outputs and impacts, and to examine the factors influencing performance.
Apr 22, 2015
Health care spending varies widely between geographic regions, but there is disagreement regarding the appropriate policy response.
Press
Mar 4, 2014
After a decade of experimentation with reforms that give health providers financial incentives to improve performance, relatively little is known about how to best execute such strategies or judge their success.
Reviews what has been learned over the past decade about performance-based payment strategies that link financial incentives to health care providers' performance on a set of defined measures in an effort to achieve better value.
Reviews what has been learned over the past decade about performance-based payment strategies in health care and offers recommendations for the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of value-based purchasing programs.
Oct 7, 2013
Regions of the United States where doctors and hospitals are consolidated into large networks are more likely to have accountable care organizations, medical practice structures intended to improve medical care and cut costs.
Oct 1, 2013
We examined where accountable care organizations (ACOs) have formed and what regional factors are predictive of ACO formation.
Expert Insights
Jun 5, 2013
Testimony presented before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health on June 5, 2013.
Feb 14, 2013
Testimony presented before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health on February 14, 2013.
