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Researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine have been awarded $2.4 million in federal funding to support ongoing studies aimed at enhancing American healthcare providers’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Announced by New Hampshire’s congressional delegation, the research funding comes from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, and was awarded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The funds will allow researchers at Geisel’s Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to study the adoption of new healthcare delivery methods, such as telehealth services, and to examine the different ways that the pandemic has impacted healthcare providers and their patients.
New findings published by Dartmouth researchers are featured in a special issue of
Health Services Research a top journal that reports on original investigations that enhance understanding of the healthcare field and help improve the health of individuals and communities.
The special issue focuses on new research highlighting the role and impact of integrated health systems in the U.S. a type of organization that has grown dramatically in recent years and includes hospitals and outpatient physician practices.
In the paper, “Organizational Integration, Practice Capabilities and Outcomes in Clinically Complex Medicare Beneficiaries,” Carrie Colla, PhD, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Geisel School of Medicine, and colleagues assessed the association between clinical integration and financial integration, quality‐focused care delivery processes, and beneficiary utilization and outcomes.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Final Rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), which contains updates to the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The MPFS dictates Medicare rates and policies under Part B, while the QPP implements two value-based payment programs: the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APMs).
Among notable changes, CMS has proposed to make permanent certain telehealth changes that have been implemented in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), confirmed the evaluation and management (E/M) documentation guidelines and payment changes finalized in the 2020 MPFS, and delayed the MIPS Value Pathway (MVP) until the 2022 performance period or later.
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