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Publication alert: The geography of Medicare’s hospital value-based purchasing
Medicare presently withholds 2% of participating hospitals’ base operating Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) payment amounts and redistributes it based on relative performance and demonstrated improvement. It is supposed to function as a reward for hospitals doing well and a motivator for those not. In 2019, the amount redistributed was $1.9 billion, with 44% of…
Improving upon a bar graph
In my preceding post, I showed how to replicate a typical Quickstats graph from the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. But such a bar graph is rather information-poor. There are only 24 pieces of data: the mean and the 95% confidence limit for each of the sex-age strata. (You could argue that the upper…
Reproducing published graphics in R
A wonderful blog post from a few years ago picked five statistical graphics at random from regular media sources like the New York Times and reproduced them with a handful of lines of R code. I thought it was written by Rafael Irrizary for the Simply Statistics blog, but now I am not seeing it…
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