Associate Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

Internal Medicine

Rachel M. Werner works in the field of Internal Medicine. She graduated from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She received awards:"Elected Member". Rachel M. Werner has written publications. She has 60 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'What's so passive about passive smoking? Secondhand smoke as a cause of atherosclerotic disease.'

Publications

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• Inpatient Hospital Charge Variability of U.S. Hospitals.
• US Department of Veterans Affairs Primary Care Provider Turnover and Patient Satisfaction-Reply.
• Marital Status and Postoperative Functional Recovery.
• Association between skilled nursing facility quality indicators and hospital readmissions.
• Evaluating a multipayer medical home intervention-reply.
• The Effect of Organizational Climate on Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation.
• Primary Care Access and Emergency Room Use Among Older Veterans.
• The effects of public reporting on physical restraints and antipsychotic use in nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairment.
• The Effect of Entry Regulation in the Health Care Sector: the Case of Home Health.
• The Medical Home Transformation in the Veterans Health Administration: An Evaluation of Early Changes in Primary Care Delivery.
• The patient centered medical home: mental models and practice culture driving the transformation process.
• Quality improvement under nursing home compare: the association between changes in process and outcome measures.
• The Patient-centered Medical Home: An Evaluation of a Single Private Payer Demonstration in New Jersey.
• Open access in the patient-centered medical home: lessons from the Veterans Health Administration.
• The Effect of Pay-for-Performance in Nursing Homes: Evidence from State Medicaid Programs.
• Effectiveness of long-term acute care hospitalization in elderly patients with chronic critical illness.
• Shipping out instead of shaping up: Rehospitalization from nursing homes as an unintended effect of public reporting.
• Identifying hospital organizational strategies to reduce readmissions.
• The EQ-5D--a generic quality of life measure--is a useful instrument to measure quality of life in patients with Parkinson''s disease.
• What's so passive about passive smoking? Secondhand smoke as a cause of atherosclerotic disease.
• Design of comprehensive Alzheimer's disease centers to address unmet national needs.
• Public reporting drove quality gains at nursing homes.
• Counterpoint: will public reporting of health-care quality measures inform and educate patients? No.
• The pay-off on nursing home report cards.
• The effect of pay-for-performance in hospitals: lessons for quality improvement.
• Changes in patient sorting to nursing homes under public reporting: improved patient matching or provider gaming?
• Performing well on nursing home report cards: does it pay off?
• Does pay-for-performance steal from the poor and give to the rich?
• Paying for performance in population health: lessons from health care settings.
• Impact of changes in clinical practice guidelines on assessment of quality of care.
• Public reporting on hospital process improvements is linked to better patient outcomes.
• Changes in the relationship between nursing home financial performance and quality of care under public reporting.
• Malpractice premiums and the supply of obstetricians.
• Quality of care among obese patients.
• Advancing nursing home quality through quality improvement itself.
• Applying market-based reforms to long-term care.
• Characteristics and outcomes of America's lowest-performing hospitals: an analysis of acute myocardial infarction hospital care in the United States.
• State adoption of nursing home pay-for-performance.
• Process quality measures and asthma exacerbations in the medicaid population.
• Making the 'pay' matter in pay-for-performance: implications for payment strategies.
• Impact of public reporting on quality of postacute care.
• A new strategy to improve quality: rewarding actions rather than measures.
• Disparities in long-term care: building equity into market-based reforms.
• Impact of public reporting on unreported quality of care.
• The relationship between measured performance and satisfaction with care among clinically complex patients.
• Comparison of change in quality of care between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals.
• Hospital performance measures and quality of care.
• Measuring quality of care in patients with multiple clinical conditions: summary of a conference conducted by the Society of General Internal Medicine.
• Clinical concerns about clinical performance measurement.
• Relationship between Medicare's hospital compare performance measures and mortality rates.
• Lying to insurance companies: the desire to deceive among physicians and the public.
• Racial profiling: the unintended consequences of coronary artery bypass graft report cards.
• The unintended consequences of publicly reporting quality information.
• Comparing the supply of pediatric subspecialists and child neurologists.
• The costs of denying scarcity.
• The future of child neurology: a profile of child neurology residents.
• Strategies to attract medical students to the specialty of child neurology.
• Support for physician deception of insurance companies among a sample of Philadelphia residents.
• The "Hassle Factor": what motivates physicians to manipulate reimbursement rules?

Schools

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• Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Elected Member

Education

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• University of Pennsylvania Health System
• Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Hospital

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• Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center

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