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Apr 7, 2025

Hospital Addiction Consultation Service Can Increase Initiation of Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Specialized hospital services that aid people with opioid use disorder regardless of why they are admitted can boost the number of patients who begin treatment with FDA-approved medication for opioid use disorder and increase the likelihood they remain engaged in that care once discharged.
Press

Apr 7, 2025

Viability of Hospital-Based Emergency Care in U.S. Faces Peril; Reforms Needed to Boost Payments

The viability of hospital-based emergency care in the United States is at risk, threatened by issues such as patients with increasingly complex needs and falling payments for physicians.
Research

Apr 7, 2025

Strategies for Sustaining Emergency Care in the United States

The authors assess the current value of emergency care in the United States, evaluate challenges to sustaining emergency care, measure trends in emergency care payment, and identify alternate funding strategies for emergency care.
Commentary

Feb 28, 2025

NHS Use of Private Hospitals? Evidence Required

Reducing waiting lists and times for nonemergency health care in the United Kingdom is a top priority for the UK Government. With only modest funding growth and a more constrained labour market, what impact will increasing NHS spending on private sector provision have?
Research

Feb 3, 2025

Evaluation of Proposed New Measures for the Hospital CAHPS Survey

The HCAHPS survey has become the most used hospital patient experience survey. Responding to possible gaps in survey content, CMS developed new HCAHPS measures. We describe the development and testing of new HCAHPS measures.
Research

Jan 31, 2025

Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

Phone-only and Web-Phone without email produce more positive responses than Mail-only, requiring negative adjustments. All other survey protocol effects and adjustments are mixed in direction and generally small.
Research

Dec 18, 2024

Methods of Assessing Duplication of Benefits with Patient Care Revenue: As Applied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Health Care Providers' Public Assistance Claims During the COVID-19 Emergency

Researchers developed analytic methods and subsequent guidance to identify duplication of benefits with patient care revenue in Federal Emergency Management Agency Public Assistance applications and reviewed select applications for such duplication.
Research

Dec 9, 2024

Inpatient Care Experiences Differ for VA and Non-VA Hospitals, With Different Patterns by Health, Race, and Ethnicity

Estimates differences and difference-in-differences in patient experiences VA compared to non-VA patients in 2017, when there was concern about the health quality of VA hospitals, and in 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Press

Dec 3, 2024

Two-Thirds of the Growth in High Intensity Hospital Stays Not Explained by Changes in Patient Demographics or Pre-Existing Comorbidities

In five states over nearly a decade, hospitals have increased how frequently they document patients as needing the highest intensity care, which has led to hospitals receiving billions in extra payments from health plans and government programs.
Research

Oct 16, 2024

Elective Induction of Labor May Have Negative Effects at the Hospital Level

By placing greater demands on labor and delivery units, elective induction of labor may reduce availability of care. In the ARRIVE trial this could have led to spillover effects on control group outcomes and overestimation of induction benefits.
Research

Sep 20, 2024

Efficiency in Organizational Structure? Assessing Heterogeneous Effects in Hospital-Physician Integration

Using a 100% national sample of Medicare data, we estimate the impacts of hospital-physician integration using parametric and nonparametric quantile differences-in-differences approaches.
Research

Sep 3, 2024

Identifying Where Hospital and Community Trusts Are Managing General Practices in England: A Service Mapping Study

More organisations that provide secondary care in the NHS are now also providing primary health care, but there is little data on the impact of this. This study aimed to compile a list of secondary care trusts running general practices in England.

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Setting U.S. Hospital Prices Could Cut Overall Health Spending by Billions

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Hospital Addiction Consultation Service Can Increase Initiation of Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Viability of Hospital-Based Emergency Care in U.S. Faces Peril; Reforms Needed to Boost Payments

Strategies for Sustaining Emergency Care in the United States

NHS Use of Private Hospitals? Evidence Required

Evaluation of Proposed New Measures for the Hospital CAHPS Survey

Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

Methods of Assessing Duplication of Benefits with Patient Care Revenue: As Applied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Health Care Providers' Public Assistance Claims During the COVID-19 Emergency

Inpatient Care Experiences Differ for VA and Non-VA Hospitals, With Different Patterns by Health, Race, and Ethnicity

Two-Thirds of the Growth in High Intensity Hospital Stays Not Explained by Changes in Patient Demographics or Pre-Existing Comorbidities

Elective Induction of Labor May Have Negative Effects at the Hospital Level

Efficiency in Organizational Structure? Assessing Heterogeneous Effects in Hospital-Physician Integration

Identifying Where Hospital and Community Trusts Are Managing General Practices in England: A Service Mapping Study

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Setting U.S. Hospital Prices Could Cut Overall Health Spending by Billions

COVID Could Surge Anywhere. This Tool Helps Hospitals Prepare

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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Hospital Addiction Consultation Service Can Increase Initiation of Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Viability of Hospital-Based Emergency Care in U.S. Faces Peril; Reforms Needed to Boost Payments

Strategies for Sustaining Emergency Care in the United States

NHS Use of Private Hospitals? Evidence Required

Evaluation of Proposed New Measures for the Hospital CAHPS Survey

Updated Adjustment of the HCAHPS Survey for New Modes of Survey Administration and Patient Mix

Methods of Assessing Duplication of Benefits with Patient Care Revenue: As Applied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Health Care Providers' Public Assistance Claims During the COVID-19 Emergency

Inpatient Care Experiences Differ for VA and Non-VA Hospitals, With Different Patterns by Health, Race, and Ethnicity

Two-Thirds of the Growth in High Intensity Hospital Stays Not Explained by Changes in Patient Demographics or Pre-Existing Comorbidities

Elective Induction of Labor May Have Negative Effects at the Hospital Level

Efficiency in Organizational Structure? Assessing Heterogeneous Effects in Hospital-Physician Integration

Identifying Where Hospital and Community Trusts Are Managing General Practices in England: A Service Mapping Study

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