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Improving Health Care Quality

Fewer Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries Are Receiving Recommended Home Health Care

Blog / Jul 24, 2024

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Achieving Universal Coverage

State Options for Making Hospital Financial Assistance Programs More Accessible

Blog / Jan 11, 2024

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Controlling Health Care Costs

Private Equity’s Role in Health Care

Explainer / Nov 17, 2023

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Controlling Health Care Costs

Tackling Overtreatment and Overspending in U.S. Health Care

Podcast / Nov 10, 2023

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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

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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

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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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