207
Ibid.
208
D. Blumenthal, E. Malphrus, and J. M. McGinnis (eds.), Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress (Washington, D.C., 2015).
209
Ibid., pp. 90–91.
210
Robert Pear, “Shaping Health Policy for Millions, and Still Treating Some on the Side,” New York Times, March 29, 2016.
211
Donald M. Berwick, “The Toxicity of Pay for Performance”, Quality Management in Health Care 4, no. 1 (1995), pp. 27–33.
212
Wasfy et al., “Public Reporting in Cardiovascular Medicine”; Claire Noel-Mill and Keith Lind, “Is Observation Status Substituting for Hospital Readmission?” Health Affairs Blog, October 28, 2015; as well as https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/30-day-measures.html.