Our Publications

Principles to Inform Risk Adjustment: Policy Reflection From the Front Lines

Amol Navathe and Daniel M. Horn give a reflection from the front lines and practicing clinicians and clinical leaders.

Using Advanced Payments In Population-Based Models To Address Equity

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure patient-centered, cost-efficient care under the umbrella of accountable care.

This article is written by Joshua Liao and Amol Navathe in response to the latest developments in policy and research affecting accountable care. Other authors will contribute to the series as well.

Additional articles will be published throughout 2023. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. 

Hospital Consolidation: The Rise of Geographically Distant Mergers

In this Viewpoint, Dr. Amol Navathe and John Connolly describe how and why cross-market mergers are different than prototypical within-market mergers in their effects on patients and communities, why the trend toward cross-market mergers may be accelerating, and future policy and research directions.

Performance of Physician Groups and Hospitals Participating in Bundled Payments Among Medicare Beneficiaries

This cohort study and difference-in-differences analysis of PGPs and hospital participation in BPCI found that bundled payments were associated with cost savings for surgical episodes for PGPs, and savings for both surgical and medical episodes for hospitals. Policy makers should consider the comparative performance of participant types when designing and evaluating bundled payment models.

The Path Ahead for Bundled Payments

This article discusses where bundled payment policy currently stands and what is likely ahead given trends over the last decade. 

Early Findings From Medicare’s End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model

This work examines Medicare's End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) Model and reviews the efficacy of this model as policy implementation. 

Medicare’s Bundled Payment Models

A comment and response dialoguing with a recently published viewpoint suggesting that bundled payments represent a promising part of payment reform.

Comparison of Low-Value Services Among Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries

The study results suggest that low-value care is less common in Medicare Advantage than Traditional Medicare, with elements of insurance design present in Medicare Advantage associated with fewer low-value services.

Selection and Causal Effects in Voluntary Programs: Bundled Payments in Medicare

Characteristics, Utilization, and Concentration of Outpatient Care for Dual-Eligible Medicare Beneficiaries