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NBER: Productivity in the Health Care Sector
Subject: Productivity in the Health Care Sector
From: Rob Shannon (rshannon@nber.org)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2007 - 11:02:07 EDT
>Productivity in the Health Care Sector
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>Dear Friends and Colleagues,
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>I wanted to inform you that the Health Care Financing Review is issuing a
>call for papers on the topic of productivity in the health care sector. I
>am serving as the issue's coordinator and I am pleased to forward to you
>our solicitation (below) for your review. Please feel free to pass this
>on to any of your colleagues who may be interested
>in this topic or would perhaps wish to submit an article for consideration.
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>Thank you for your time and attention.
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>John A. Poisal
>Deputy Director, National Health Statistics Group
>Office of the Actuary, CMS
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>Call for Papers: Health Care Financing Review
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>Winter 2007-2008
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>Health Care Sector Productivity
>Submission Date: 08/21/2007
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>Payments to many of Medicare's providers (hospitals, physicians,
>skilled nursing facilities, etc.) are updated annually on the basis of
>price growth associated with the inputs required to furnish the care
>they deliver. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has
>been recommending that Medicare payment systems further encourage
>providers to reduce the quantity of inputs needed to produce a unit of
>service by a modest amount each year while maintaining quality of care.
>As no government agency produces a productivity measure specific to
>health care, their suggested approach, found in the MedPAC March 2007
>Report, is to set the target for productivity improvements to equal
>the long-run average of economy-wide multifactor productivity as measured
>by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This issue of the Review will focus
>on analyses of productivity in the health care sector. It will include
>a study of the productivity adjustment presently used in the Medicare
>Economic Index as well as an exploratory analysis dedicated to the
>development of a productivity estimate specific to physicians' offices.
>We are interested in papers that examine and clarify various
>productivity measures that could be used to update payments to health
>care providers, as well as analyses that focus on methodological
>considerations associated with measurements of these types.
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