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1 Introduction
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... The cost reimbursement structure for health care delivery has been shifting over time, in part due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) , from a fee-for-service model to a value-based payments model.
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... encouraging alignment between clinical and community services to ensure that needed services are available to beneficiaries. The CMS announcement also refers to the agency's "­ etter b care, smarter spending, and healthier people" approach, which echoes the Triple Aim concept of better care and better population health at a lower cost, which has also played an important role in encouraging health care delivery systems to pay greater attention to population health and to tradeoffs in how the nation spends its health dollar.
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... of the U.S. Depart ment of Transportation, the Health and Medicine Division and the Transportation Research Board will jointly convene an ad hoc committee to plan and conduct a 2-day workshop to examine data sources, including data from health care pro viders, existing measures, and other information relevant to using performance measures to explore the relationship between transit and health care (e.g., missed appointments)
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... . In accordance with the policies of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the workshop did not attempt to establish any conclusions or recommendations about needs and future directions, instead focusing solely on issues identified by the speakers, discussants, and workshop participants.


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