Medicare's Flawed Adjustment Methodology Poor Way to Spend Billions

The methodology Medicare uses to adjust the billions of dollars it pays health plans and hospitals to account for how sick their patients are is flawed and should be replaced, according to a new study by Dartmouth investigators published in the journal BMJ that weighed the performance of Medicare’s methodology against alternatives.

Source: News at Dartmouth Medical School - April 10, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Authors: derik.hertel at dartmouth.edu (Derik Hertel) Source Type: news