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Improving Health Care Quality

How Regional Partnerships Bolster Rural Hospitals

Publication / May 15, 2023

Improving Health Care Quality

Which Parts of the United States Have the Most Consolidated Medicare Hospital Spending?

Blog / Jan 04, 2023

Home health care provider organizes the table at the home of clients

Advancing Health Equity

Did COVID-19 Have a Disparate Impact on Home Health Use in Medicare?

Issue Briefs / Jul 14, 2022

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Controlling Health Care Costs

Tackling High Health Care Prices: A Look at Four Purchaser-Led Efforts

Publication / Apr 01, 2022

Controlling Health Care Costs

Supreme Court Will Decide How Medicare’s Extra Payments to Hospitals Treating Low-Income Patients Are Calculated

Blog / Nov 23, 2021

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Controlling Health Care Costs

How Hospitals Respond to Incentives in Bundled Payment Models for Joint Surgery

Journal Article / May 18, 2021

An elderly patient admitted to the emergency room waits to be seen by a doctor.

Controlling Health Care Costs

Changing Diagnosis Patterns Are Increasing Medicare Spending for Inpatient Hospital Services

Publication / Apr 28, 2021

Gun Violence and Healthcare

Advancing Health Equity

Violence, Interrupted: Breaking Cycles in the Hospital and on the Street

Podcast / Feb 26, 2021

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Improving Health Care Quality

Q&A: A Volley of Ideas — How England and the United States Shared Lessons on Operating Field Hospitals During the Pandemic

Blog / Sep 03, 2020

Health systems partnering with Contessa Health provide both home and video visits.

Improving Health Care Quality

Has the Time Finally Come for Hospital at Home?

Publication / Jul 07, 2020

hospital during COVID

Improving Health Care Quality

Canary in a Coal Mine? A Look at Initial Data on COVID-19’s Impact on U.S. Hospitals

Issue Briefs / Jun 25, 2020

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2019: Higher Spending, Worse Outcomes?

Improving Health Care Quality

U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2019: Higher Spending, Worse Outcomes?

Issue Briefs / Jan 30, 2020

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