Medicaid's Path to Value-Based Reform.

N Engl J Med

From the Department of Medicine, University of Washington, and the Value and Systems Science Lab, University of Washington Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety - both in Seattle (J.M.L.); the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital - both in Boston (B.D.S.); and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (J.M.L., A.S.N.), and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center and the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania (A.S.N.) - all in Philadelphia.

Published: July 2018

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