Patient empowerment calls for an intensified participation of (informed) patients with more treatment opportunities to choose from. A growing body of literature argues that confronting consumers with too many opportunities can lead to a choice overload (CO) resulting in uncertainty that the...

Abstract Objective To assess the 12-month cost-effectiveness of the nurse-led transitional care program “Cardiolotse” (CL) for patients with cardiovascular diseases compared to usual care (UC). Methods A cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-utility analysis (CUA) were conducted from...

This brief discusses the potential for self-reported health measures to serve as data inputs for predictive modeling tools for state Medicaid agencies. The results are encouraging, finding that a simple series of self-reported health measures meets established statistical thresholds for...

The Affordable Care Act authorized the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to test innovative health care payment and service delivery models with the potential to lower spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s...

This report summarizes the evaluation findings for the Electronic Health Records Demonstration (EHRD), funded and implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). A large proportion of practices (43 percent) were unable or unwilling to meet program requirements to continue...