This report presents findings from Mathematica’s study of how Medicare Advantage (MA) has evolved over its first three years. It focuses on plan availability and enrollment, benefits and premiums, quality of care, and firms’ perspectives and decisionmaking. The findings provide...

The Integrated Delivery System Research Network (IDSRN) is a major initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that seeks to further the agency’s goals of knowledge transfer and movement of research to practice. The IDSRN involves contracts with nine teams of...

New leaders at Cleveland’s two major hospital systems—the Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) and University Hospitals Health System (UHHS)—have helped strengthen the organizations’ financial positions and soothe long-standing rivalries, according to a new report...

In October 2012, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in a unique collaboration between public and private health care payers, launched the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative to improve primary care delivery in seven...

This brief describes the importance of different care coordination activities in improving patient outcomes. It also explores ways that the patient-centered medical home and accountable care organizations can coordinate care.