Blogs from the NYU Wagner Community

Category: Analysis

    • 01/23/2013
      Hospital Pay-for-Performance [P4P] for NYC’s Public Hospitals
      Posted by: Jan Blustein According to a recent press release New York City’s public hospitals will begin to pay its MDs for meeting targets relating to health care quality and efficiency.  The targets are quite varied, and include enhanced coordination of care, reductions in readmissions, decreases in ER wait times, and reductions in length-of-stay.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog
    • 01/23/2013
      Reducing Waste in Health Care
      Posted by: Joel Wittman  The discussions continue about the ways that  waste and overspending can be  restrained in our domestic health care system.  With health care expenditures soon to approach 20% of the GDP, the matter is increasingly more important.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog
    • 11/26/2012
      The Drivers of Health Care Costs
      Posted by Joel Wittman With health care costs continuing to comprise a huge portion of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, efforts are ever-continuing to identify the drivers of these costs and, ultimately, devise methods to slow or decrease health care expenses.
      – Wagner Health Policy and Management Program Blog