The Independence at Home Demonstration tests whether providing a payment incentive to home-based primary care practices reduces Medicare spending and improves quality of care for chronically ill beneficiaries who need help from another person with activities of daily living.
Care management has the potential to improve quality of care and health outcomes for chronic conditions, but questions remain about how patients perceive care management.
Advancing Healthy Lifestyles (AHL) is working to prevent chronic disease and advance health equity by promoting health and supporting healthy behaviors.
The goal of Advancing Healthy Lifestyles (AHL) is to reduce obesity and other chronic conditions to achieve health equity among all Delaware residents.
Over four years (2017 to 2020), the Million Hearts CVD Risk Reduction Model enrolled more than 250,000 Medicare beneficiaries throughout the United States who were at elevated risk of having a heart attack or stroke over 10 years.
In the Accountable Health Communities Model, awardees established advisory boards to respond to community needs. Focus groups with advisory board members highlighted strategies for forming boards, collaborating, and sustaining changes implemented under the model.
Health-related social needs (HRSNs) refer to social conditions that negatively impact one’s health. As more providers screen for HRSNs, we developed this guide to describe the HRSN Screening Tool from the Accountable Health Communities Model and to share promising practices with a broader audience.
For comparative effectiveness research to achieve its purpose, providers and patients must use research evidence to make medical decisions.
Databases of practicing physicians are important for studies that require sampling physicians or counting the physician population in a given area. However, little is known about how the three main sampling frames differ from each other.
For the latter third of the twentieth century, researchers have estimated production and cost functions for physician practices. Today, those attempting to measure the inputs and outputs of physician practice must account for many recent changes in models of care delivery.