Beginning in 2019, Medicare payments to physicians will be adjusted up or down by annually increasing amounts according to how a doctor meets national benchmarks for high-value care.
This kind of 'high-value' care is so important that it's been designated a national priority as a way to reduce skyrocketing health care costs; in 2019 physicians' payments from Medicare will be adjusted up or down to reflect how that doctor meets national benchmarks for high-value care.
To the Editor: Convenience, price and speed to degree seem to be the emerging benchmarks for higher education in the United States.
Debra W. Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, said that U.S. graduate schools are a strategic national asset, and that the results of the study will help academic leaders and policymakers establish benchmarks for higher education both here and around the globe.
Although the standard approach in cost-effectiveness analysis relies on benchmarks for high-value interventions using the same threshold value for the WTP per QALY for all interventions, we observe substantial differences in the WTP per QALY to avoid different health states.
The lack of monotonically increasing trends in risk for frequency and duration of exposure, suggests that diesel emissions may be associated with rectal cancer risk only in specific occupational sub-groups with prolonged (>10 years) exposure at very high concentrations, such as underground miners, which represent the benchmark for high concentration of diesel exposure in the NECSS.
The fourth Guardian University Awards once again recognised excellence in Britain's best universities and set the benchmark for higher education excellence.
Goldman Sachs estimates that a one percentage point rise in interest rates would reduce the value of bonds in the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index — the benchmark for high-quality core bond investments — by $1 trillion.
In all cases, the Nipponbare genome has served as the benchmark for high-quality reference genome.
And though it doesn't offer the deepest or most fulfilling gameplay, Infinity Blade succeeds in ushering in the new visual benchmark for high-end iPhone gaming.
