Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, the former CMS administrator who is president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses cost variation in cancer care found through ...

Spiraling healthcare costs and growing concern over the quality of patient care are topics of intense focus across the industry. One key to improving quality and reducing cost lies in monitoring, ...

Controlled studies have shown that some care management interventions, which typically support patients with outreach and regular contact by trained individuals such as nurse case managers or health ...

Compared with Japan, the United States has substantially less geographic variation in surgical outcomes, but it has higher variation in cost. This retrospective cohort study uses Medicare Part A data ...