Center for Evaluating Health Reform
![Improving the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program through Rulemaking Our JAMA Health Forum manuscript describes potential modifications the Department of Health and Human could make through rulemaking](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/3395b986-1b4d-4f0b-9c9c-959c0c6d23ca.png)
Improving the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program through Rulemaking - Screenshot of HACRP Rulemaking Policy Brief
![Difference-in-Differences for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy Visual abstract for our article in JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods - Methods for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy: The Difference-in-Difference Approach](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/2467e453-0514-4d8b-906c-8929b9a2a1bc.png)
Difference-in-Differences for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy - Difference-in-Differences for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy
![Effect of Pay-for-Performance in Primary Care on Mortality in the UK Visual abstract for our article in The Lancet - Long-term evidence for the effect of pay-for-performance in primary care on mortality in the UK: a population study](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/3054e690-8171-4d97-a5ed-b00a7e00caf9.png)
Effect of Pay-for-Performance in Primary Care on Mortality in the UK - Effect of Pay-for-Performance in Primary Care on Mortality in the UK
![Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Visual abstract for our article in NEJM - Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/b05b0f9b-64b6-4b4a-841b-30b08cb6e931.png)
Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing - Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
![Facilitating Evaluation of CMS Policies Visual abstract for our article in NEJM - Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/685a572e-ae80-4b49-92ca-cb7e6da53911.png)
Facilitating Evaluation of CMS Policies - Facilitating Evaluation of CMS Policies
![Incremental Effects of Antihypertensive Drugs Visual abstract for our article in BMJ - Incremental effects of antihypertensive drugs: instrumental variable analysis](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/5675119a-f01b-4c35-9ea7-81fd37de2a78.png)
Incremental Effects of Antihypertensive Drugs - Incremental Effects of Antihypertensive Drugs
![Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Patients Under Medicare's Bundled Payment Visual abstract for our article in - Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Cardiac Patients Under Medicare's Bundled Payments](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/0c645dac-0eb4-41e1-9cbd-c1f6bd0e5e3e.png)
Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Patients Under
Medicare's Bundled Payment - Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Patients Under
Medicare's Bundled Payment
![Coping with non-parallel trends using difference-in-differences analysis in health policy Visual abstract for our article in Statistical Methods in Medical Research - Now trending: Coping with non-parallel trends in difference-in-differences analysis](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/59875c9f-d954-4381-9e60-e7e76d0d1a91.png)
Coping with non-parallel trends using difference-in-differences analysis in health
policy - Coping with non-parallel trends using difference-in-differences analysis in health
policy
![How to Paper Sprint like CEHR Visual abstract for our article in Perspective on Medical Education - Sprint to work: A novel model for team science collaboration in academic medicine](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/72dac962-c07b-413b-b8df-9268acd25cbf.png)
How to Paper Sprint like CEHR - How to Paper Sprint like CEHR
![Do effects of Medicare ACOs spill over to commercial patients? Visual abstract for our article in Medical Care - Physician Participation in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations and Spillovers in Commercial Spending](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/f76a93f0-28d4-4a59-8e2d-8f9ced558cc0.png)
Do effects of Medicare ACOs spill over to commercial patients? - Do effects of Medicare ACOs spill over to commercial patients?
![Has the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) appropriately balanced incentives for accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue caring for high-risk beneficiaries? Visual abstract for our article in Health Affairs - Risk Adjustment In Medicare ACO Program Deters Coding Increases But May Lead ACOs To Drop High-Risk Beneficiaries](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/5fa1134d-0d33-4a94-abf2-a85b486f9b6d.png)
Has the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) appropriately balanced incentives for
accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue caring for high-risk beneficiaries? - Has the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) appropriately balanced incentives for
accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue caring for high-risk beneficiaries?
![CMS expansion of secondary diagnoses and incentives for health IT associated with increases in measured severity Visual abstract for our article in JAMA Network Open - Association Between Medicare Policy Reforms and Changes in Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries' Severity of Illness](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/d87f388e-8d72-4332-b26b-52a9120779d5.png)
CMS expansion of secondary diagnoses and incentives for health IT associated with
increases in measured severity - CMS expansion of secondary diagnoses and incentives for health IT associated with
increases in measured severity
![Medicare Shared Savings Program not associated with greater relative reductions among high-cost beneficiaries Visual abstract for our article in Journal of General Internal Medicine - ACOs and the 1%: Changes in Spending Among High-Cost Patients Following the Medicare Shared Savings Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/3bebbf4d-2f8f-4fe9-a218-75d9fd25c691.png)
Medicare Shared Savings Program not associated with greater relative reductions among
high-cost beneficiaries - Medicare Shared Savings Program not associated with greater relative reductions among
high-cost beneficiaries
![Instrumental Variable Analysis suggests that Medical Shared Savings Program (MSSP) not associated with spending reductions or quality improvement Visual abstract for our article in Annals of Internal Medicine - Performance in the Medicare Shared Savings Program After Accounting for Nonrandom Exit: An Instrumental Variable Analysis](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/b2ee0a6d-feae-4c6e-a1f2-727f9d89d313.png)
Instrumental Variable Analysis suggests that Medical Shared Savings Program (MSSP)
not associated with spending reductions or quality improvement - Instrumental Variable Analysis suggests that Medical Shared Savings Program (MSSP)
not associated with spending reductions or quality improvement
![The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) is not associated with significant clinical improvements Visual abstract for our article in BMJ - Changes in hospital safety following penalties in the US Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program: retrospective cohort study](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/97b19bad-9cfa-4bb6-858e-c1ff63ff7024.png)
The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) is not associated with
significant clinical improvements - The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) is not associated with
significant clinical improvements
![Three Strategies to Motivate Providers to Manage High-Cost Patients and Limit Financial Risk Visual abstract for our article in ScienceDirect - A delicate balance: Accountability for very high-cost patients in new payment models](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/2c2341c2-324e-4c3f-8c3d-3ab83655ac59.png)
Three Strategies to Motivate Providers to Manage High-Cost Patients and Limit Financial
Risk - Three Strategies to Motivate Providers to Manage High-Cost Patients and Limit Financial
Risk
![CMS change in inpatient pneumonia coding does not explain HRRP readmission reduction Visual abstract for our article in Health Services Research - Changes in coding of pneumonia and impact on the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/295d48fe-1fbd-464a-afa5-f78099e15174.png)
CMS change in inpatient pneumonia coding does not explain HRRP readmission reduction - CMS change in inpatient pneumonia coding does not explain HRRP readmission reduction
![The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) Is Not Associated with Additional Improvement in Patient Safety Visual abstract for our article in Health Affairs - Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program Is Not Associated With Additional Patient Safety Improvement](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/0007327a-a3e4-4d35-a9e8-a665b4e91d76.png)
The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) Is Not Associated with
Additional Improvement in Patient Safety - The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) Is Not Associated with
Additional Improvement in Patient Safety
![Invalid measurement of patient safety will limit the ability of the CMS penalty program to drive meaningful improvements in patient safety Visual abstract for our article in BMJ Quality & Safety - Accuracy of quality measurement for the Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/5fd77e4e-1358-48be-8635-a3ea30c48095.png)
Invalid measurement of patient safety will limit the ability of the CMS penalty program
to drive meaningful improvements in patient safety - Invalid measurement of patient safety will limit the ability of the CMS penalty program
to drive meaningful improvements in patient safety
![Paper Sprints: Singular Focus, High Productivity Visual abstract for our article in JAMA Internal Medicine - Association of Coded Severity With Readmission Reduction After the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/2ba35e4d-fa31-403d-a2da-e1c76995e2c4.png)
Paper Sprints: Singular Focus, High Productivity - Paper Sprints: Singular Focus, High Productivity
![Improving the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program through Rulemaking Our JAMA Health Forum manuscript describes potential modifications the Department of Health and Human could make through rulemaking](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/3395b986-1b4d-4f0b-9c9c-959c0c6d23ca.png)
Improving the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program through Rulemaking - Screenshot of HACRP Rulemaking Policy Brief
![Difference-in-Differences for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy Visual abstract for our article in JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods - Methods for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy: The Difference-in-Difference Approach](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/2467e453-0514-4d8b-906c-8929b9a2a1bc.png)
Difference-in-Differences for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy - Difference-in-Differences for Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy
![Effect of Pay-for-Performance in Primary Care on Mortality in the UK Visual abstract for our article in The Lancet - Long-term evidence for the effect of pay-for-performance in primary care on mortality in the UK: a population study](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/3054e690-8171-4d97-a5ed-b00a7e00caf9.png)
Effect of Pay-for-Performance in Primary Care on Mortality in the UK - Effect of Pay-for-Performance in Primary Care on Mortality in the UK
![Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Visual abstract for our article in NEJM - Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/b05b0f9b-64b6-4b4a-841b-30b08cb6e931.png)
Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing - Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing
![Facilitating Evaluation of CMS Policies Visual abstract for our article in NEJM - Changes in Hospital Quality Associated with Hospital Value-Based Purchasing](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/685a572e-ae80-4b49-92ca-cb7e6da53911.png)
Facilitating Evaluation of CMS Policies - Facilitating Evaluation of CMS Policies
![Incremental Effects of Antihypertensive Drugs Visual abstract for our article in BMJ - Incremental effects of antihypertensive drugs: instrumental variable analysis](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/5675119a-f01b-4c35-9ea7-81fd37de2a78.png)
Incremental Effects of Antihypertensive Drugs - Incremental Effects of Antihypertensive Drugs
![Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Patients Under Medicare's Bundled Payment Visual abstract for our article in - Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Cardiac Patients Under Medicare's Bundled Payments](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/0c645dac-0eb4-41e1-9cbd-c1f6bd0e5e3e.png)
Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Patients Under Medicare's Bundled Payment - Risk Adjustment May Lessen Penalties On Hospitals Treating Complex Patients Under Medicare's Bundled Payment
![Coping with non-parallel trends using difference-in-differences analysis in health policy Visual abstract for our article in Statistical Methods in Medical Research - Now trending: Coping with non-parallel trends in difference-in-differences analysis](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/59875c9f-d954-4381-9e60-e7e76d0d1a91.png)
Coping with non-parallel trends using difference-in-differences analysis in health policy - Coping with non-parallel trends using difference-in-differences analysis in health policy
![How to Paper Sprint like CEHR Visual abstract for our article in Perspective on Medical Education - Sprint to work: A novel model for team science collaboration in academic medicine](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/72dac962-c07b-413b-b8df-9268acd25cbf.png)
How to Paper Sprint like CEHR - How to Paper Sprint like CEHR
![Do effects of Medicare ACOs spill over to commercial patients? Visual abstract for our article in Medical Care - Physician Participation in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations and Spillovers in Commercial Spending](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/f76a93f0-28d4-4a59-8e2d-8f9ced558cc0.png)
Do effects of Medicare ACOs spill over to commercial patients? - Do effects of Medicare ACOs spill over to commercial patients?
![Has the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) appropriately balanced incentives for accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue caring for high-risk beneficiaries? Visual abstract for our article in Health Affairs - Risk Adjustment In Medicare ACO Program Deters Coding Increases But May Lead ACOs To Drop High-Risk Beneficiaries](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/5fa1134d-0d33-4a94-abf2-a85b486f9b6d.png)
Has the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) appropriately balanced incentives for accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue caring for high-risk beneficiaries? - Has the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) appropriately balanced incentives for accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue caring for high-risk beneficiaries?
![CMS expansion of secondary diagnoses and incentives for health IT associated with increases in measured severity Visual abstract for our article in JAMA Network Open - Association Between Medicare Policy Reforms and Changes in Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries' Severity of Illness](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/d87f388e-8d72-4332-b26b-52a9120779d5.png)
CMS expansion of secondary diagnoses and incentives for health IT associated with increases in measured severity - CMS expansion of secondary diagnoses and incentives for health IT associated with increases in measured severity
![Medicare Shared Savings Program not associated with greater relative reductions among high-cost beneficiaries Visual abstract for our article in Journal of General Internal Medicine - ACOs and the 1%: Changes in Spending Among High-Cost Patients Following the Medicare Shared Savings Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/3bebbf4d-2f8f-4fe9-a218-75d9fd25c691.png)
Medicare Shared Savings Program not associated with greater relative reductions among high-cost beneficiaries - Medicare Shared Savings Program not associated with greater relative reductions among high-cost beneficiaries
![Instrumental Variable Analysis suggests that Medical Shared Savings Program (MSSP) not associated with spending reductions or quality improvement Visual abstract for our article in Annals of Internal Medicine - Performance in the Medicare Shared Savings Program After Accounting for Nonrandom Exit: An Instrumental Variable Analysis](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/b2ee0a6d-feae-4c6e-a1f2-727f9d89d313.png)
Instrumental Variable Analysis suggests that Medical Shared Savings Program (MSSP) not associated with spending reductions or quality improvement - Instrumental Variable Analysis suggests that Medical Shared Savings Program (MSSP) not associated with spending reductions or quality improvement
![The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) is not associated with significant clinical improvements Visual abstract for our article in BMJ - Changes in hospital safety following penalties in the US Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program: retrospective cohort study](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/97b19bad-9cfa-4bb6-858e-c1ff63ff7024.png)
The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) is not associated with significant clinical improvements - The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) is not associated with significant clinical improvements
![Three Strategies to Motivate Providers to Manage High-Cost Patients and Limit Financial Risk Visual abstract for our article in ScienceDirect - A delicate balance: Accountability for very high-cost patients in new payment models](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/2c2341c2-324e-4c3f-8c3d-3ab83655ac59.png)
Three Strategies to Motivate Providers to Manage High-Cost Patients and Limit Financial Risk - Three Strategies to Motivate Providers to Manage High-Cost Patients and Limit Financial Risk
![CMS change in inpatient pneumonia coding does not explain HRRP readmission reduction Visual abstract for our article in Health Services Research - Changes in coding of pneumonia and impact on the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/295d48fe-1fbd-464a-afa5-f78099e15174.png)
CMS change in inpatient pneumonia coding does not explain HRRP readmission reduction - CMS change in inpatient pneumonia coding does not explain HRRP readmission reduction
![The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) Is Not Associated with Additional Improvement in Patient Safety Visual abstract for our article in Health Affairs - Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program Is Not Associated With Additional Patient Safety Improvement](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/0007327a-a3e4-4d35-a9e8-a665b4e91d76.png)
The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) Is Not Associated with Additional Improvement in Patient Safety - The Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program (HACRP) Is Not Associated with Additional Improvement in Patient Safety
![Invalid measurement of patient safety will limit the ability of the CMS penalty program to drive meaningful improvements in patient safety Visual abstract for our article in BMJ Quality & Safety - Accuracy of quality measurement for the Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/5fd77e4e-1358-48be-8635-a3ea30c48095.png)
Invalid measurement of patient safety will limit the ability of the CMS penalty program to drive meaningful improvements in patient safety - Invalid measurement of patient safety will limit the ability of the CMS penalty program to drive meaningful improvements in patient safety
![Paper Sprints: Singular Focus, High Productivity Visual abstract for our article in JAMA Internal Medicine - Association of Coded Severity With Readmission Reduction After the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program](https://sph.umich.edu/_ldp/.private_ldp/a236728/production/master/2ba35e4d-fa31-403d-a2da-e1c76995e2c4.png)
Paper Sprints: Singular Focus, High Productivity - Paper Sprints: Singular Focus, High Productivity