Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
James Weinstein
SVP Microsoft Health - Innovation and Health Equity
Publications
Publications by Year
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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
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
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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
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Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
G20 Summit | October 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
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
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
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
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A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
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)
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
Situational Awareness: Inequity.
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
Marshall Plan 2.0.
Spine | September 2020
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
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
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
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
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
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.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
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
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
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
How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
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
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
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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Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
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
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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
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
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
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
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
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Value creation strategies for health care.
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
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
Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
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
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
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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)
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
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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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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
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Publications by Research Area
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Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
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
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
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
Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
G20 Summit | October 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
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
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
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
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Situational Awareness: Inequity.
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
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)
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
Marshall Plan 2.0.
Spine | September 2020
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
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
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
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
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
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
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
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)
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
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
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
How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
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
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
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James Weinstein
Published by National Academies Press (US) | January 2017
Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
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
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
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
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
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
Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
Value creation strategies for health care.
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
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
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
Publications by Type
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Health and Wealth in America
Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
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
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
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
Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
G20 Summit | October 2021
Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
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
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
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
A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
Spine | October 2020
Situational Awareness: Inequity.
Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
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)
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
Marshall Plan 2.0.
Spine | September 2020
Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
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
Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
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
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
Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
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)
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
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
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
How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
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
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
Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
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
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
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
How Healthcare Is Different
The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
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
Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
Value creation strategies for health care.
Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
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
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
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
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)
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
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care
Robert S. Huckman, Robert S. Huckman, Michael E. Porter, Rachel Gordon, Natalie Kindred, James Weinstein
March 2009
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