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| Robert A BerensonSummaryAffiliation: Urban Institute Country: USA Publications
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Unchecked provider clout in California foreshadows challenges to health reformRobert A Berenson
Center for Studying Health System Change and Health Policy Center at Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:699-705. 2010....- The growing power of some providers to win steep payment increases from insurers suggests policy remedies may be neededRobert A Berenson
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:973-81. 2012.... - Does telemonitoring of patients--the eICU--improve intensive care?Robert A Berenson
Urban Institute s Health Policy Center, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w937-47. 2009..We argue that comparative effectiveness initiatives should emphasize delivery-system and work-process innovations, which are relatively understudied compared to specific drugs, devices, and services... - Medicare advantage plans at a crossroads--yet againRobert A Berenson
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w29-40. 2009.... - A house is not a home: keeping patients at the center of practice redesignRobert A Berenson
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:1219-30. 2008..As the medical home concept is further developed, it will be important to not overemphasize redesign of practices at the expense of patient-centered care, which is the hallmark of excellent primary care... 
Use of physicians' services under Medicare's resource-based paymentsStephanie Maxwell
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
N Engl J Med 356:1853-61. 2007..We conducted a study to determine how the use of physicians' services changed during the first decade after the implementation of this scale...
How to buy a medical home? Policy options and practical questionsRobert A Berenson
The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:619-24. 2010..Indeed, it may be that different circumstances will require different payment approaches in various combinations...- Obtaining providers' 'buy-in' and establishing effective means of information exchange will be critical to HITECH's successMarsha R Gold
Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:514-26. 2012.... - Hospital-physicians relations: cooperation, competition, or separation?Robert A Berenson
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 26:w31-43. 2007..Although there are increasing expectations that health system challenges will lead hospitals and physicians to collaborate, in many markets the willingness and ability for hospitals and physicians to work together is actually eroding... - Lumpers and splitters: different approaches to understanding variations researchRobert A Berenson
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2004.... - Revising Medicare's physician fee schedule--much activity, little changePaul B Ginsburg
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC, USA
N Engl J Med 356:1201-3. 2007 - Specialty-service lines: salvos in the new medical arms raceRobert A Berenson
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:w337-43. 2006..However, as the scope of care that can be safely performed in the outpatient arena expands, physician competition for control over specialty services may threaten hospitals' financial health... - Which way for competition? None of the aboveRobert A Berenson
Urban Institute in Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1536-42. 2005..Consumer-directed care threatens important societal values--in particular, the goal of establishing relationships between patients and clinical professionals based on trust... - Medicare disadvantaged and the search for the elusive 'level playing field'Robert A Berenson
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2004.... - US approaches to physician payment: the deconstruction of primary careRobert A Berenson
The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:613-8. 2010..Accordingly, new payment models will likely be required to support restoration of primary care to its proper role in the US health care system, and to promote and sustain the development of patient-centered medical homes... - Getting serious about excessive Medicare spending: a purchasing modelRobert A Berenson
Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2003.... - From politics to policy: a new payment approach in Medicare AdvantageRobert A Berenson
Urban Institute in Washington, D C, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:w156-64. 2008..A result would be that the rural and lower-cost urban "floor counties" would have benchmarks below currently inflated levels but above what financial neutrality at the local level--MedPAC's approach--would produce... - Hospitals' geographic expansion in quest of well-insured patients: will the outcome be better care, more cost, or both?Emily R Carrier
Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 31:827-35. 2012..Although payers and competitors contend such strategies will lead to higher costs, hospitals assert the expansions will increase efficiency, increase access, and improve the quality of care provided to patients... - Medicare payment policy: does cost shifting matter?Jason S Lee
National Organization for Research at Chicago, Washington, DC, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2003..Third, federal policymakers may not consciously consider cost shifting, but state policymakers do. Fourth, Medicare payment policy requires constant adjustment, but we are "getting it right" most of the time...