NIH R01 · 2024
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is consistently ranked as one of the top five most expensive conditions billed to Medicare and has been the target of several cost containment measures, including Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. To improve outcomes after AMI hospitalizations, payers have implemented public reporting, financial penalties, and alternative payment models that incentivize the assumption of financial risk such as capitation. These measures have not been accompanied by evidence-based guidelines on how health systems can improve outcomes after hospitalization. An impediment to such guidance has been an incomplete understanding of patient-level factors that may…
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