RETHINKING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF RISK ADJUSTMENT Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes
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In recent years many academics, health care providers, and third-party payers have focused their attention on estimating and discussing the quality of health care. This focus is derived in part from concerns that the incentives of funding systems, such as prospective payments, result in cost/quality trade-offs that have a negative impact on the health of beneficiaries (Poland, Bollinger, Bedard, & Cohen, 1985; Thomas et al., 1986).
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