Modern Healthcare - Reform Update: Abandoning Fee-for-service Would Affect ER Care, Docs Say in Health Affairs

Jesse Pines, M.D., director of the Office of Clinical Practice Research and professor of emergency medicine and health policy, was featured in a Modern Healthcare article on his recently published paper in the journal Health Affairs. The paper examinines ways to reduce acute care costs without sacrificing quality of care. His findings were also featured by Medical Xpress, Science Codex, News-Medical, Medical News Today, Science Daily, MedPage Today, Becker’s Hospital Review, and Becker’s Clinical Quality & Infection Control.

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