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Medicare Imaging Demonstration final evaluation : report to Congress /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Timbie, Justin William (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) (sponsoring body.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2014]
Colección:Research report (Rand Corporation)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section I. Report overview
  • Background and description of the demonstration and its evaluation
  • Section II. Convener-level results associated with advanced image ordering with decision support systems for practices associated with the Medicare imaging demonstration
  • Analysis of DSS data
  • Analysis of the impact of the MID demonstration on the appropriateness of advanced imaging orders
  • Relationships between the appropriateness of advanced imaging procedure orders and imaging results
  • Section III. Convener-level analyses of advanced image utilization before and after the Medicare imaging demonstration was introduced in practices associated with the demonstration compared with comparable control practices
  • Trends in imaging utilization in the Medicare imaging demonstration
  • Section IV. Physician and patient experience with appropriateness criteria for advanced imaging
  • Physician satisfaction with exposure to advanced imaging appropriateness criteria in the demonstration
  • Medicare patient satisfaction in the demonstration with receiving an advanced imaging procedure after physicians were exposed to appropriateness criteria
  • Section V. Six statute questions that can inform future recommendations about decision support
  • Recommendations about the acceptability of MID's DSS for identifying appropriate versus inappropriate advanced imaging orders
  • Recommendations about volume of utilization in response to physician exposure to advanced imaging appropriateness criteria at the time of orders
  • Recommendations about the advisability of expanding the use of appropriateness criteria for ordering advanced imaging to a broader population of Medicare beneficiaries
  • Recommendations about the advisability of allowing high-performing physicians to be exempt from requirements to consult appropriateness criteria
  • Recommendations about the value of live feedback on the appropriateness of advanced imaging orders from a decision support system compared with feedback reports to individual physicians or physician practices
  • Recommendations about strategies for motivating physicians to comply with ordering advanced imagery appropriately according to appropriateness criteria
  • Section IV. Conclusion
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Technical appendix A. DSS and claims methods
  • Technical appendix B. Evaluation of the MID : focus group methodology.