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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463264303321

Titolo

Variation in health care spending : target decision making, not geography / / Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Care, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ; Joseph P. Newhouse [and five others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National  Academies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-309-28870-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

338.433621

Soggetti

Medical care, Cost of - United States - Evaluation

Medical care - United States - Cost effectiveness

Medical economics - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction and Overview""; ""2 Empirical Analysis of Geographic Variation""; ""3 Indexing Value in Medicare: The Role of Geographic Area Performance""; ""4 Payment and Organizational Reforms to Improve Value""; ""Appendix A: Glossary""; ""Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations""; ""Appendix C: Summary of Empirical Modeling Methodology""; ""Appendix D: Regression Model Specifications with Clusters of Predictors""

""Appendix E: Harvard University Price Adjustment Memorandums""""Appendix F: Harvard Market Variables Memorandum""; ""Appendix G: Selected Results of the Committee's Commissioned Empirical Analyses""; ""Appendix H: Public Workshop Agendas""; ""Appendix I: Committee Biographies""