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| Gregory C PopeSummaryAffiliation: RTI International Country: USA Publications
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Minimum savings requirements in shared savings provider paymentGregory C Pope
Program on Health Care Financing and Payment, RTI International, Waltham, MA, USA
Health Econ 21:1336-47. 2012..We study the trade-off between two types of errors in setting minimum savings requirements: paying bonuses when providers do not create savings and not paying bonuses when providers create savings...
Risk adjustment of Medicare capitation payments using the CMS-HCC modelGregory C Pope
RTI International, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 25:119-41. 2004..Modifications to reduce plan data reporting burden and adaptations for disabled, institutionalized, newly enrolled, and secondary payer subpopulations are discussed...
Medicare preferred provider organization demonstration: plan offerings and beneficiary enrollmentGregory C Pope
RTI International, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 27:95-109. 2006....
Profiling efficiency and quality of physician organizations in MedicareGregory C Pope
RTI International, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 29:31-43. 2007..Without changes in PO behavior, the gains from redirecting patients from lower to higher efficiency and quality providers are likely to be limited...
Medicare physician group practice demonstration design: quality and efficiency pay-for-performanceJohn Kautter
RTI International, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 29:15-29. 2007..A summary of early case study findings is also provided...
Estimation of non-response bias in the Medicare FFS HOSNancy McCall
Research Triangle Institute RTI International, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 25:27-41. 2004..63 and 0.46 lower after adjustment for propensity weighting. These levels are small for component scores suggesting that survey non-response to the FFS HOS does not adversely affect estimates of average health status for this population...
Improvements in Medicare Part D risk adjustment: beneficiary access and payment accuracyJohn Kautter
RTI International, Waltham, MA 02451 1623, USA
Med Care 50:1102-8. 2012..This article describes a major revision of these "risk adjustments," intended to more accurately match payments to costs, especially for high-cost, disadvantaged populations...
Evaluating the performance of medicare fee-for-service providers using the health outcomes survey: a comparison of two methodsMichael G Trisolini
Research Triangle Institute, Waltham, Massachusetts 02452, USA
Med Care 43:699-704. 2005..We compared 2 methods for evaluating the performance of Medicare FFS providers, the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) and Health Assessment Laboratory (HAL) methods...
Medicare risk adjustment for the frail elderlyJohn Kautter
RTI International, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 30:83-93. 2008..In particular, we present results on the revised frailty adjuster that is being phased in for PACE organizations between 2008 and 2012...
Impact of nonresponse on Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey estimatesJohn Kautter
RTI International, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
Health Care Financ Rev 27:71-93. 2006..Our findings indicate that for most of the measures studied, the bias caused by differences between nonrespondents and respondents in the MCBS was substantially reduced or eliminated by the nonresponse procedures currently employed...
Left ventricular ejection fraction test rates for Medicare beneficiaries with heart failureBei Wu
Health Economics Research, Inc, 411 Waverley Oaks Rd, Suite 330, Waltham, MA 02452-8414, USA
Am J Med Qual 17:61-6. 2002..Using a 2-year time window and measuring tests performed in outpatient as well as inpatient settings, we find a higher LVEF test rate than has been reported by most previous studies...
Local enactment of tobacco control policies in MassachusettsWilliam J Bartosch
Center for Health Economics Research, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
Am J Public Health 92:941-3. 2002
