James Weinstein

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024

Publication PDF Project

Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

Publication DOI Project

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

Publication DOI Project

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

DOI

Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

Peter Lee, Amy Abernethy, David Shaywitz,, Adi V. Gundlapalli, James Weinstein, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Kevin Schulman, MD, Subha Madhavan

NAM Perspect | January 2022

Publication Project

Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations

Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago

G20 Summit | October 2021

Publication Project

Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)

Publication PDF

Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015

Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021

PDF Publication

Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021

PDF

The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change

James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner

JAMA Health Forum | January 2021

DOI Publication

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Spine | October 2020

DOI

Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein

JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)

DOI Publication

Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.

Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382

DOI

Situational Awareness: Inequity.

James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319

DOI Publication PDF

Marshall Plan 2.0.

James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020

DOI PDF

Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896

PDF DOI

Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein

Health Affairs | April 2020

Publication Project Project

Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication

Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures

Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein

March 2020

DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF

Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.

William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks

Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955

DOI PDF Publication Publication

A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4

PDF Publication Publication DOI

Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466

DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF

Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.

Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein

Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)

DOI Publication Publication PDF

Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.

Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden

Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication

Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.

Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein

Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743

DOI Publication Publication Publication

Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures

Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein

JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.

James Weinstein

Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75

DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF

Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.

Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein

Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589

DOI Publication Publication Publication

The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.

Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein

Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James Weinstein

Published by National Academies Press (US) | January 2017

DOI Publication Publication PDF

Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF

Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.

Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein

Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.

Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.

Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein

The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.

Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105

Publication Publication

Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030

Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106

Publication

How Healthcare Is Different

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

Value creation strategies for health care.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112

Publication

Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114

Publication

The urgent need to create healthcare value.

Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136

Publication

The unintended consequences of bundled payments.

Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein

Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64

DOI Publication Publication Publication

A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value

Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Withholds to Slow Medicare Spending: A Better Deal Than Cuts

Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein, Elliott S. Fisher

JAMA | January 2012, Vol 307(1): pp. 43-44

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results

Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)

DOI Publication Publication Publication

Comparative effectiveness evidence from the spine patient outcomes research trial: surgical versus nonoperative care for spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, and intervertebral disc herniation.

Anna N.A. Tosteson, Tor D. Tosteson, Jon D. Lurie, William Abdu, Harry Herkowitz, Gunnar Andersson, Todd Albert, Keith Bridwell, Wenyan Zhao, Margaret R. Grove, Milton C. Weinstein, James Weinstein

Spine | November 2011, Vol 36(24): pp. 2061-2068

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care

Robert S. Huckman, Robert S. Huckman, Michael E. Porter, Rachel Gordon, Natalie Kindred, James Weinstein

March 2009

Publication Publication PDF

Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration

John E. Wennberg, Shannon Brownlee, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein

December 2008

PDF

Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort

James Weinstein, Jon D. Lurie, Tor D. Tosteson, Jonathan S. Skinner, Brett Hanscom, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Harry Herkowitz, Jeffrey Fischgrund, Frank P. Cammisa, Todd Albert, Richard A. Deyo

JAMA | November 2006, Vol 296(20): pp. 2451-2459

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF

Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial

James Weinstein, Tor D. Tosteson, Jon D. Lurie, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Brett Hanscom, Jonathan S. Skinner, William A. Abdu, Alan S. Hilibrand, Scott D. Boden, Richard A. Deyo

JAMA | November 2006, Vol 296(20): pp. 2441-2450

DOI PDF PDF PDF PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024

Publication PDF Project

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024

Publication PDF Project

Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

Publication DOI Project

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

Publication DOI Project

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

DOI

Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

Peter Lee, Amy Abernethy, David Shaywitz,, Adi V. Gundlapalli, James Weinstein, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Kevin Schulman, MD, Subha Madhavan

NAM Perspect | January 2022

Publication Project

Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations

Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago

G20 Summit | October 2021

Publication Project

Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)

Publication PDF

Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015

Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021

PDF Publication

Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021

PDF

The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change

James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner

JAMA Health Forum | January 2021

DOI Publication

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Spine | October 2020

DOI

Situational Awareness: Inequity.

James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319

DOI Publication PDF

Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein

JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)

DOI Publication

Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.

Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382

DOI

Marshall Plan 2.0.

James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020

DOI PDF

Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896

PDF DOI

Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein

Health Affairs | April 2020

Publication Project Project

Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication

Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures

Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein

March 2020

DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF

Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.

William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks

Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955

DOI PDF Publication Publication

A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4

PDF Publication Publication DOI

Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466

DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF

Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.

Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein

Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)

DOI Publication Publication PDF

Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.

Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden

Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication

Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.

Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein

Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743

DOI Publication Publication Publication

Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures

Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein

JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.

James Weinstein

Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75

DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF

Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.

Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein

Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589

DOI Publication Publication Publication

The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.

Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein

Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James Weinstein

Published by National Academies Press (US) | January 2017

DOI Publication Publication PDF

Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF

Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.

Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein

Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.

Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.

Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein

The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030

Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106

Publication

Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.

Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105

Publication Publication

How Healthcare Is Different

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114

Publication

Value creation strategies for health care.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112

Publication

The urgent need to create healthcare value.

Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136

Publication

The unintended consequences of bundled payments.

Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein

Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64

DOI Publication Publication Publication

A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value

Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Withholds to Slow Medicare Spending: A Better Deal Than Cuts

Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein, Elliott S. Fisher

JAMA | January 2012, Vol 307(1): pp. 43-44

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication

The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results

Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)

DOI Publication Publication Publication

Comparative effectiveness evidence from the spine patient outcomes research trial: surgical versus nonoperative care for spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, and intervertebral disc herniation.

Anna N.A. Tosteson, Tor D. Tosteson, Jon D. Lurie, William Abdu, Harry Herkowitz, Gunnar Andersson, Todd Albert, Keith Bridwell, Wenyan Zhao, Margaret R. Grove, Milton C. Weinstein, James Weinstein

Spine | November 2011, Vol 36(24): pp. 2061-2068

DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care

Robert S. Huckman, Robert S. Huckman, Michael E. Porter, Rachel Gordon, Natalie Kindred, James Weinstein

March 2009

Publication Publication PDF

Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration

John E. Wennberg, Shannon Brownlee, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein

December 2008

PDF

Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort

James Weinstein, Jon D. Lurie, Tor D. Tosteson, Jonathan S. Skinner, Brett Hanscom, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Harry Herkowitz, Jeffrey Fischgrund, Frank P. Cammisa, Todd Albert, Richard A. Deyo

JAMA | November 2006, Vol 296(20): pp. 2451-2459

DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF

Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial

James Weinstein, Tor D. Tosteson, Jon D. Lurie, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Brett Hanscom, Jonathan S. Skinner, William A. Abdu, Alan S. Hilibrand, Scott D. Boden, Richard A. Deyo

JAMA | November 2006, Vol 296(20): pp. 2441-2450

DOI PDF PDF PDF PDF Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication

Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

Publication DOI Project

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

DOI

Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein

Health Affairs | April 2020

Publication Project Project

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024

Publication PDF Project

Health and Wealth in America

Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein

International Journal of Public Health | March 2024

Publication DOI Project

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

Publication DOI Project

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Bill Weeks (wiweeks), James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

International Journal of Public Health | December 2023, Vol 68

DOI

Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

Peter Lee, Amy Abernethy, David Shaywitz,, Adi V. Gundlapalli, James Weinstein, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Kevin Schulman, MD, Subha Madhavan

NAM Perspect | January 2022

Publication Project

Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations

Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago

G20 Summit | October 2021

Publication Project

Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)

Publication PDF

Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015

Harper O. Wallace, Kenan Fikri, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021

PDF Publication

Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao , Jeremy Smith , Chaitanya Bangur, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | January 2021

PDF

The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change

James Weinstein, Bill Weeks, Jonathan S. Skinner

JAMA Health Forum | January 2021

DOI Publication

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Spine | October 2020

DOI

Situational Awareness: Inequity.

James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319

DOI Publication PDF

Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, Stacey Y. Cao, Jeremy Smith, James Weinstein

JAMA Network Open | September 2020, Vol 3(10)

DOI Publication

Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.

Bill Weeks, Nitesh Jain, James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1382

DOI

Marshall Plan 2.0.

James Weinstein

Spine | September 2020

DOI PDF

Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896

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Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Nancy E. Morden, Jonathan Skinner, Bill Weeks, Stephanie Tomlin, James Weinstein

Health Affairs | April 2020

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Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351

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Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.

William B. Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James N. Weinstein, James N. Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden, Nancy E. Morden, James Weinstein, Bill Weeks

Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, Vol 35(3): pp. 952-955

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A Decade of Modest Convergence in Geographic Variation in Per Capita Medicare Fee-for-Service Expenditures: Taxation Without Representation Is Not Sustainable; Is It Time for Taxpayer and Consumer Engagement?

Bill Weeks, Grace Huynh, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | February 2020, pp. 1-4

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Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466

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Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.

Curtis L. Petersen, Bill Weeks, Olof Norin, James Weinstein

Jmir mhealth and uhealth | March 2019, Vol 7(3)

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Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.

Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein, Nancy E. Morden

Journal of General Internal Medicine | December 2018, Vol 34(12): pp. 2731-2732

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Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.

Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, Bruno Ventelou, Todd Mackenzie, James Weinstein

Journal of Palliative Medicine | May 2018, Vol 21(6): pp. 742-743

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Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

Bill Weeks, Mariétou H.L. Ouayogodé, James Weinstein

Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2018, Vol 33(9): pp. 1433-1435

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Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures

Bill Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Weinstein

JAMA Internal Medicine | April 2018, Vol 178(5): pp. 717-719

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How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.

James Weinstein

Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75

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Episode-of-Care Characteristics and Costs for Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery in Hospitals Belonging to the High Value Healthcare Collaborative Compared With Similar Hospitals in the Same Health Care Markets.

Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, David J. Ballard, Gary S. Kaplan, Brent James, James Weinstein

Medical Care | May 2017, Vol 55(6): pp. 583-589

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The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.

Bill Weeks, William J. Schoellkopf, Lyle S. Sorensen, Andrew L. Masica, Robert E. Nesse, James Weinstein

Journal of Arthroplasty | February 2017, Vol 32(3): pp. 702-708

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Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104

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Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.

Bill Weeks, Gregory R. Kotzbauer, James Weinstein

Milbank Quarterly | May 2016, Vol 94(2): pp. 314-333

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Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.

Bill Weeks, Robert A. Greene, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | September 2015, Vol 128(10): pp. 1050-1051

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Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.

Bill Weeks, Robert A Greene, James Weinstein

The New England Journal of Medicine | August 2015, Vol 373(8): pp. 777-777

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Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | July 2015, Vol 128(8): pp. 802-803

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Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models: Medicare officials want to expand alternative payment models to help slow the growth of healthcare costs and preserve the solvency of the program, currently anticipated to go bankrupt by 2030

Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S. Fisher, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-106

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Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.

Bill Weeks, Judd Gregg, Elliott S Fisher, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | March 2015, Vol 69(4): pp. 104-105

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How Healthcare Is Different

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108

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Value creation strategies for health care: to deal with the epidemic of overuse in health care, patient preferences must be incorporated into the healthcare decision-making process, value creation must be calculated from a population health perspective, and a clear payment mechanism that provides incentives for value must be implemented

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114

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Value creation strategies for health care.

Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112

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The urgent need to create healthcare value.

Bill Weeks, Eric B Wadsworth, Stephen S Rauh, James Weinstein

Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | April 2013, Vol 67(5): pp. 136

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The unintended consequences of bundled payments.

Bill Weeks, Stephen S. Rauh, Eric B. Wadsworth, James Weinstein

Annals of Internal Medicine | December 2012, Vol 158(1): pp. 62-64

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A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value

Ivan M. Tomek, Allison L. Sabel, Mark I. Froimson, George Muschler, David S. Jevsevar, Karl M. Koenig, David G. Lewallen, James M. Naessens, Lucy A. Savitz, James L. Westrich, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

Health Affairs | May 2012, Vol 31(6): pp. 1329-1338

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Withholds to Slow Medicare Spending: A Better Deal Than Cuts

Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein, Elliott S. Fisher

JAMA | January 2012, Vol 307(1): pp. 43-44

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The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results

Stephen S Rauh, Eric B Wadsworth, Bill Weeks, James Weinstein

The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2011, Vol 365(26)

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Comparative effectiveness evidence from the spine patient outcomes research trial: surgical versus nonoperative care for spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, and intervertebral disc herniation.

Anna N.A. Tosteson, Tor D. Tosteson, Jon D. Lurie, William Abdu, Harry Herkowitz, Gunnar Andersson, Todd Albert, Keith Bridwell, Wenyan Zhao, Margaret R. Grove, Milton C. Weinstein, James Weinstein

Spine | November 2011, Vol 36(24): pp. 2061-2068

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Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort

James Weinstein, Jon D. Lurie, Tor D. Tosteson, Jonathan S. Skinner, Brett Hanscom, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Harry Herkowitz, Jeffrey Fischgrund, Frank P. Cammisa, Todd Albert, Richard A. Deyo

JAMA | November 2006, Vol 296(20): pp. 2451-2459

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Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial

James Weinstein, Tor D. Tosteson, Jon D. Lurie, Anna N.A. Tosteson, Brett Hanscom, Jonathan S. Skinner, William A. Abdu, Alan S. Hilibrand, Scott D. Boden, Richard A. Deyo

JAMA | November 2006, Vol 296(20): pp. 2441-2450

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Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures

Bill Weeks, Stacey Y. Cao, Chris M. Lester, James Weinstein

March 2020

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care

Robert S. Huckman, Robert S. Huckman, Michael E. Porter, Rachel Gordon, Natalie Kindred, James Weinstein

March 2009

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Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration

John E. Wennberg, Shannon Brownlee, Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner, James Weinstein

December 2008

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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James Weinstein

Published by National Academies Press (US) | January 2017

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