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Author Timbie, Justin William, author.

Title Medicare Imaging Demonstration final evaluation : report to Congress / Justin W. Timble [and nine others].

Publication Info. Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Research report
Research report (Rand Corporation)
Note "Sponsored by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Section I. Report overview -- Background and description of the demonstration and its evaluation -- Section II. Convener-level results associated with advanced image ordering with decision support systems for practices associated with the Medicare imaging demonstration -- Analysis of DSS data -- Analysis of the impact of the MID demonstration on the appropriateness of advanced imaging orders -- Relationships between the appropriateness of advanced imaging procedure orders and imaging results -- Section III. Convener-level analyses of advanced image utilization before and after the Medicare imaging demonstration was introduced in practices associated with the demonstration compared with comparable control practices -- Trends in imaging utilization in the Medicare imaging demonstration -- Section IV. Physician and patient experience with appropriateness criteria for advanced imaging -- Physician satisfaction with exposure to advanced imaging appropriateness criteria in the demonstration -- Medicare patient satisfaction in the demonstration with receiving an advanced imaging procedure after physicians were exposed to appropriateness criteria -- Section V. Six statute questions that can inform future recommendations about decision support -- Recommendations about the acceptability of MID's DSS for identifying appropriate versus inappropriate advanced imaging orders -- Recommendations about volume of utilization in response to physician exposure to advanced imaging appropriateness criteria at the time of orders -- Recommendations about the advisability of expanding the use of appropriateness criteria for ordering advanced imaging to a broader population of Medicare beneficiaries -- Recommendations about the advisability of allowing high-performing physicians to be exempt from requirements to consult appropriateness criteria -- Recommendations about the value of live feedback on the appropriateness of advanced imaging orders from a decision support system compared with feedback reports to individual physicians or physician practices -- Recommendations about strategies for motivating physicians to comply with ordering advanced imagery appropriately according to appropriateness criteria -- Section IV. Conclusion -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Technical appendix A. DSS and claims methods -- Technical appendix B. Evaluation of the MID : focus group methodology.
Note PDF (JSTOR, viewed May 29, 2015).
Subject Diagnostic imaging.
Medicare.
Diagnostic Imaging
Medicare
Imagerie pour le diagnostic.
Medicare.
Diagnostic imaging
Medicare
Added Author Rand Corporation, issuing body.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.), sponsoring body.
ISBN 9780833089656 (electronic bk.)
083308965X (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000066377428
GBVCP 100866409X

 
    
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