How much savings can we wring from medicare?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 14, 2011, Pages e29(1)-

  Chernew, Michael ^a   Goldman, Dana ^b,c   Axeen, Sarah ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; DECISION MAKING; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; INSURANCE; LAW; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 80053479125     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1110593     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. March 2011 Medicare Baseline. (http://www.cbo.gov/budget/factsheets/ 2011b/medicare.pdf.)
2. Report to the Congress: improving incentives in the Medicare program. Washington, DC: Medicare Payment Advisory Committee, June 2009. (http://www.medpac.gov/documents/jun09-entirereport.pdf.)
3. Liu CF, Subramanian S, Cromwell J. Impact of global bundled payments on hospital costs of coronary artery bypass grafting. J Health Care Finance 2001;27:39-54. (Pubitemid 32554176)