Controlling health care spending - The Massachusetts experiment

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1560-1561

  Song, Zirui ^a,c   Landon, Bruce E ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; LAW; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RESIDENT; SHORT SURVEY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860112210     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1201261     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. National health expenditure accounts (https://www.cms.gov/NationalHealth ExpendData).
2. Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council. Roadmap to cost containment. October 21, 2009 (http://www.mass.gov/hqcc).
3. Examination of health care cost trends and cost drivers: report for annual public hearing, June 22, 2011. Boston: Office of Attorney General Martha Coakley (http://www.mass .gov/ago/docs/healthcare/2011-hcctd.pdf).
4. An act improving the quality of health care and controlling costs by reforming health systems and payments. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2011 (http:// www.mass.gov/governor/docs/legislation/ paymentreformlegislation. pdf).
5. Landon BE. Keeping score under a global payment system. N Engl J Med 2012;366:393-5.