BEST OF: J. Michael McWilliams on the Effects of Patient Survey Data on Risk Adjustment

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews J. Michael McWilliams of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital on his recent paper that explores opportunities for the use of patient health survey data for risk adjustment to limit distortionary coding incentives in Medicare. Order the January 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.

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BEST OF: J. Michael McWilliams on the Effects of Patient Survey Data on Risk Adjustment is an episode from A Health Podyssey by Health Affairs.

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This episode was published on Dec 30, 2025.

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