MPA’s Operational Structure to Support Hospital/Physician Alignment and ACOs Published in the American Journal of Surgery • Article • 07.23.10

MPA’s Virtual Partnership was applied to four surgical conditions and published in an article titled Virtual partnerships: aligning hospital and physician incentives in the July 2010 issue of the American Journal of Surgery. The Virtual Partnership uses currently available data to create an ideal operation structure to support the equitable division of revenue between hospitals and physicians. This is particularly important to the successful management of any ACO. The… More»

MPA’s Warranty Technique Published in the Archives of Surgery • Article • 07.20.10

In a paper entitled Surgical Warranties to Improve Quality and Efficiency in Elective Colon Surgery, published in the July 2010 issue of the Archives of Surgery, MPA’s methodology for establishing surgical warranties was applied to a national sample of patients undergoing elective colon resection. The results of the study demonstrate that, using currently available data, an equitable warranty can be computed that rewards high quality, efficient providers without penalizing providers that treat… More»

Dr. Fry Makes MPA Case for Warranties in the NY Times • Article • 05.28.10

Dr. Fry makes the case for health care warranties in an article titled Who Pays for Medical Complications? written by surgeon and author Pauline W. Chen, M.D. The article presents the weaknesses and potentially dangerous effects of unilateral non-payment strategies, citing MPA’s article published in the Archives of Surgery. In his interview with Dr. Chen, Dr. Fry explained the impact of patient characteristics on clinical outcomes and how… More»

MPA Research Featured at the 2010 Annual Academy Health Research Meeting • Article • 04.22.10

Dr. Pine will give a presentation entitled “New Measures of Risk-Adjusted Rates of Complications of Effective Surgical Procedures Reveal Substantial Variation In Hospital Performance” as part of a panel on “Quality and Efficiency: Methods and Measures”.

The meeting will be held from June 27-29, 2010 in Boston, MA. For more information, click here.

MPA research highlights weakness in “never events” policies • Article • 03.02.10

MPA findings that patient characteristics as well as quality of care affect the occurrence of “never events” were published in an article titled Patient characteristics and the occurrence of “never events” in the February, 2010 issue of the Archives of Surgery.

The CMS non-payment strategy for hospital acquired infections (generally referred to as their “Never Events” Policy) and similar programs being implemented by private payers are based on the premise that financial… More»