Engaging Consumers in the Quality Measurement
Jan 10, 2017
Engaging consumers in quality measurement is critical to improving quality of care. Researchers identified barriers to consumer participation and suggest ways to address these barriers.
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Implementing the Affordable Care Act
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been marked by controversy and unexpected twists, including court challenges, the initial rollout fiasco, and delays in key provisions. RAND experts have examined the impact of these developments and the law’s provisions on coverage, costs, and health. Underpinning much of this work is the COMPARE microsimulation model, which allows RAND experts to produce timely assessments of the law’s components and proposed alternatives.
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Over the last four decades, both the public and private sectors have experimented with payment approaches designed to motivate providers to deliver better care at lower cost. Since the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, we have led the way in efforts to understand the links between physician payment, quality of care, and system cost.
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Organizing Care
How individuals access and experience care depends on more than health insurance. At the most basic level are questions about who provides care and how new care arrangements can make care more accessible, more efficient, and less costly. RAND Health is evaluating multiple experiments with these new arrangements to learn how well they perform and what might improve them.
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Quality of Care
The U.S. health care system struggles to deliver care that is likely to improve health and is consistent with current medical science. Improving care is a long-term, complex challenge, and we have confronted this challenge by helping to establish the scientific basis for defining and measuring quality of care.
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