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Economic Forces Driving Payment Reform

Waste, We Know You Are Out There (NEJM 10/30/2008)

Three "Inconvenient Truths" about Health Care (NEJM 10/23/2008)

Options for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs (NEJM 4/3/2008)

Medicare Showdown (NEJM 8/7/2008)

The Perfect Storm of Overutilization (JAMA 2008)

CMS Payment Models

Medicare Demonstration Projects (CMS web site)

Beyond Pay for Performance — Emerging Models of Provider-Payment Reform (NEJM 9/18/2008)

No Place Like Home — Testing a New Model of Care Delivery (NEJM 9/19/2008)

Building a Medical Neighborhood for the Medical Home (NEJM 9/18/2008)

Coordinating Care — A Perilous Journey through the Health Care System (NEJM 3/6/2008)

Electronic Health Records, Medical Research, and the Tower of Babel (NEJM 4/17/2008)

Reforming Medicare's Physician Payment System  (NEJM 2-12-2009)

A Closer Look at the Economic Argument for Disease Prevention (JAMA 2-11-2009)

Effect of Care Coordination on Hospitalization Quality of Care and health care expenditures (JAMA 2-11-2009)

International Models

Still in the Game — Harnessing Employer Inventiveness in U.S. Health Care Reform (10/2/2008)

Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs — Learning from International Experience (10/23/2008)

Dutch Doctors and Their Patients — Effects of Health Care Reform in the Netherlands (NEJM (12/13/2007)

The Troubled Transformation of Britain's National Health Service (NEJM 7/27/2006)

Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada (NEJM 8/21/2003)