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In a new report, health policy experts at Richard A. and Susan F. Smith...

"...Operationalizing broad recommendations (such as not paying for poor quality care) has, in practice, resulted in policies with unintended consequences that can negatively affect patients..." ( Association of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries...

"...Data released as recently as earlier this month confirm that the decline in screening rates persisted throughout the pandemic and rates have still not returned to normal levels..."( Changes in Health Care Access and Preventive Health Screenings by Race and Ethnicity. JAMA Health Forum)

Chieh Yang (Christopher) Koo joined us this year as a post-doctoral researcher from Singapore, where he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the National University of Singapore's Department of Medicine and a consultant for National University's Department of Cardiology. Dr. Koo is also the vice...

This summer the lab hosted 4 students, 2 of whom are leaving us today at the end of their rotation after lots of hard work and learning. Masiel and Kristina are part of the NIH-T34 Bridges to Baccalaureate Program. They contributed to data quantification on our existing lab project and conducted...

A recent JAHA study from mentee Jason Gusdorf and Dr. Secemsky, as featured in the ACC's CV News Digest.

"While increased access to services once beneficiaries are enrolled in MA could dampen some of the effects of favorable selection, limited evidence suggests that MA plans are not providing greater access to services overall relative to FFS." ( Comparison of Medicare Advantage vs. Traditional...

"...However, the current strategy of attaching quality metrics to fee-for-service payments has added to the administrative burden and worsened physician burnout. CMS has 2,266 quality metrics in its inventory..."( Quality Measure Development and Associated Spending by the Centers for Medicare &...

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Nick Spetko is an Advanced Cardiovascular Disease Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and a Smith Center Postdoctoral T32 Research Fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Jordan Strom. Nick joined the Smith Center in July of 2024. In his first year at the Smith...