Payer mix & financial health drive hospital quality: Implications for value-based reimbursement policies

by Matthew Manary, Richard Staelin, William Boulding, & Seth W. Glickman
February 16, 2017


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Author Note

This work was supported by research funds from the Fuqua School of Business. The authors thank Dr. Harlan Krumholz and Yale University’s Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation for their support and for providing the team with access to annual hospital-level outcomes data.

Author Affiliation

Manary, Staelin, Boulding, Duke University Fuqua School of Business; Glickman, University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]

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