James Weinstein

SVP Microsoft Health - Innovation and Health Equity

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- Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation
  
  Jiachen Li, Amanda K. Hall, Ruican Zhong, Selin S. Everett, Alyssa Unell, Hanwen Xu, Matthias Blondeel, Jonathan M. Carlson, Katie Claveau, Thulasee Jose, Tristan Naumann, David C. Rhew, Naiteek Sangani, Frank Tuan, James Weinstein, Varun Mishra, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Hao Qiu, Leonardo Schettini, Joseph S. Preston, Aiden Gu, Naoto Usuyama, Zelalem Gero, Cliff Wong, Noel C. Codella, Hoifung Poon, Shrey Jain, Matthew P Lungren, Eric Horvitz
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Honorable Mention Award
  
  Publication
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI Project
- 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
  
  Publication DOI Project
- 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
  
  DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project
- Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
  
  Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
  
  G20 Summit | October 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
  
  Publication PDF
- 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
  
  PDF Publication
- 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
  
  PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication
- A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Spine | October 2020
  
  DOI
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication
- 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
  
  DOI
- Situational Awareness: Inequity.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
  
  DOI Publication PDF
- Marshall Plan 2.0.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | September 2020
  
  DOI PDF
- Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
  
  PDF DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project Project
- Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication
- 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
  
  PDF Publication Publication DOI
- Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
  
  Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James Weinstein
  
  Published by National Academies Press (US) | January 2017
  
  DOI Publication Publication PDF
- Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  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
  
  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
  
  Publication
- How Healthcare Is Different
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Value creation strategies for health care.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
  
  Publication
- 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
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
  
  Publication
- 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
  
  Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  PDF
- 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

- Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation
  
  Jiachen Li, Amanda K. Hall, Ruican Zhong, Selin S. Everett, Alyssa Unell, Hanwen Xu, Matthias Blondeel, Jonathan M. Carlson, Katie Claveau, Thulasee Jose, Tristan Naumann, David C. Rhew, Naiteek Sangani, Frank Tuan, James Weinstein, Varun Mishra, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Hao Qiu, Leonardo Schettini, Joseph S. Preston, Aiden Gu, Naoto Usuyama, Zelalem Gero, Cliff Wong, Noel C. Codella, Hoifung Poon, Shrey Jain, Matthew P Lungren, Eric Horvitz
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Honorable Mention Award
  
  Publication
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI Project
- 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
  
  DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project Project
- Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation
  
  Jiachen Li, Amanda K. Hall, Ruican Zhong, Selin S. Everett, Alyssa Unell, Hanwen Xu, Matthias Blondeel, Jonathan M. Carlson, Katie Claveau, Thulasee Jose, Tristan Naumann, David C. Rhew, Naiteek Sangani, Frank Tuan, James Weinstein, Varun Mishra, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Hao Qiu, Leonardo Schettini, Joseph S. Preston, Aiden Gu, Naoto Usuyama, Zelalem Gero, Cliff Wong, Noel C. Codella, Hoifung Poon, Shrey Jain, Matthew P Lungren, Eric Horvitz
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Honorable Mention Award
  
  Publication
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI Project
- 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
  
  Publication DOI Project
- 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
  
  DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project
- Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
  
  Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
  
  G20 Summit | October 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
  
  Publication PDF
- 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
  
  PDF Publication
- 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
  
  PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication
- A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Spine | October 2020
  
  DOI
- Situational Awareness: Inequity.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
  
  DOI Publication PDF
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication
- 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
  
  DOI
- Marshall Plan 2.0.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | September 2020
  
  DOI PDF
- Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
  
  PDF DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project Project
- Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication
- 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
  
  PDF Publication Publication DOI
- Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
  
  Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James Weinstein
  
  Published by National Academies Press (US) | January 2017
  
  DOI Publication Publication PDF
- Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  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
  
  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
  
  Publication Publication
- How Healthcare Is Different
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
  
  Publication
- Value creation strategies for health care.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
  
  Publication
- 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
  
  Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  PDF
- 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
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project

- Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation
  
  Jiachen Li, Amanda K. Hall, Ruican Zhong, Selin S. Everett, Alyssa Unell, Hanwen Xu, Matthias Blondeel, Jonathan M. Carlson, Katie Claveau, Thulasee Jose, Tristan Naumann, David C. Rhew, Naiteek Sangani, Frank Tuan, James Weinstein, Varun Mishra, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Hao Qiu, Leonardo Schettini, Joseph S. Preston, Aiden Gu, Naoto Usuyama, Zelalem Gero, Cliff Wong, Noel C. Codella, Hoifung Poon, Shrey Jain, Matthew P Lungren, Eric Horvitz
  
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) | April 2026
  
  Honorable Mention Award
  
  Publication
- Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs
  
  Suhas Babu, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Bill Weeks
  
  The Journal of Rural Health | January 2025
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice
  
  Bill Weeks, Bruno Demuro Segundo, Dan M Lee, Divya Michael, James Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  Journal of Community Medicine & Public Health | October 2024
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Health and Wealth in America
  
  Bill Weeks, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, James Weinstein
  
  International Journal of Public Health | March 2024
  
  Publication DOI Project
- 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
  
  Publication DOI Project
- 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
  
  DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project
- Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations
  
  Ann Aerts, James Weinstein, Jessica Glago
  
  G20 Summit | October 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA | February 2021, Vol 325(5)
  
  Publication PDF
- 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
  
  PDF Publication
- 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
  
  PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication
- A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Spine | October 2020
  
  DOI
- Situational Awareness: Inequity.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | September 2020, Vol 45(19): pp. 1317-1319
  
  DOI Publication PDF
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication
- 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
  
  DOI
- Marshall Plan 2.0.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | September 2020
  
  DOI PDF
- Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | May 2020, Vol 35(6): pp. 1894-1896
  
  PDF DOI
- 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
  
  Publication Project Project
- Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of General Internal Medicine | March 2020, Vol 35(4): pp. 1348-1351
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication
- 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
  
  PDF Publication Publication DOI
- Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  JAMA Surgery | April 2019, Vol 154(5): pp. 465-466
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI PDF Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.
  
  James Weinstein
  
  Spine | January 2018, Vol 43(2): pp. 73-75
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | December 2016, Vol 130(1): pp. 101-104
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  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
  
  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
  
  Publication Publication
- How Healthcare Is Different
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  The American Journal of Medicine | January 2015, Vol 128(2): pp. 107-108
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Healthcare Financial Management | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112-114
  
  Publication
- Value creation strategies for health care.
  
  Bill Weeks, James Weinstein
  
  Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association | December 2013, Vol 68(1): pp. 112
  
  Publication
- 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
  
  Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication Publication
- 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)
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication
- 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
- 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
- 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
  
  DOI Publication Publication Publication PDF
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care
  
  Robert S. Huckman, Robert S. Huckman, Michael E. Porter, Rachel Gordon, Natalie Kindred, James Weinstein
  
  March 2009
  
  Publication Publication PDF
- 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
  
  PDF
- Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
  
  Alina Baciu, Yamrot Negussie, Amy Geller, James Weinstein
  
  Published by National Academies Press (US) | January 2017
  
  DOI Publication Publication PDF

James Weinstein

Publications

Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation

Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Health and Wealth in America

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations

Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015

Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions

The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.

Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.

Situational Awareness: Inequity.

Marshall Plan 2.0.

Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures

Use of Z-Codes to Record Social Determinants of Health Among Fee-for-service Medicare Beneficiaries in 2017.

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?

Cost and Outcomes Information Should Be Part of Shared Decision Making.

Development and Implementation of a Person-Centered, Technology-Enhanced Care Model For Managing Chronic Conditions: Cohort Study.

Association Between Community Economic Distress and Receipt of Recommended Services Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Enrollees.

Community Economic Distress and Changes in Medicare Patients’ End-of-Life Care Costs.

Association Between a Measure of Community Economic Distress and Medicare Patients’ Health Care Utilization, Quality, Outcomes, and Costs

Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures

How Do We Move Beyond Regression to the Mean?: Improving Health and Health Care.

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.

The High Value Healthcare Collaborative: Observational Analyses of Care Episodes for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery.

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

Per-Capita Medicare Expenditures, Primary Care Access, Mortality Rates, and the Least Healthy Cities in America

Using Publicly Available Data to Construct a Transparent Measure of Health Care Value: A Method and Initial Results.

Potential advantages of health system consolidation and integration.

Performance in Year 1 of Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations.

Caveats to Consider When Calculating Healthcare Value

Accelerating uptake of new Medicare payment models.

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

How Healthcare Is Different

Value creation strategies for health care.

The urgent need to create healthcare value.

The unintended consequences of bundled payments.

A Collaborative Of Leading Health Systems Finds Wide Variations In Total Knee Replacement Delivery And Takes Steps To Improve Value

Withholds to Slow Medicare Spending: A Better Deal Than Cuts

The Savings Illusion — Why Clinical Quality Improvement Fails to Deliver Bottom-Line Results

Comparative effectiveness evidence from the spine patient outcomes research trial: surgical versus nonoperative care for spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, and intervertebral disc herniation.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care

Improving Quality and Curbing Health Care Spending: Opportunities for the Congress and the Obama Administration

Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort

Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial

Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation

Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs

Health and Wealth in America

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Exploring the Future of AI in Clinical Collaboration: A Study on Tumor Board Case Preparation

Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs

Choosing your Surgeon Wisely: Using Provider-Procedure-Volume-Specific Data for Informed Choice

Health and Wealth in America

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being

Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

Advocacy: Addressing health inequities with AI-powered populations

Economic Prosperity and Cardiovascular Mortality Further Evidence That All Policy Is Health Policy

Improving Economic Conditions Matter for Mortality: Changes in Local Economic Distress Associated with Mortality Among Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries Between 2003 and 2015

Examining the Prevalence of Previously Recorded Phenotypically Related Diagnoses Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Enrollees Newly Diagnosed with Mendelian Conditions

The Federal Health Authority, a Federal Reserve System for Health Care: COVID-19 Has Exposed a Need for Change

A Method for Examining Geographic Variation When Denominators are Unknown, Populations Vary, and Time is of the Essence: Back Surgery as an Example

Situational Awareness: Inequity.

Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.

Point of View: “Correlates of Google Search Rankings for Spine Surgeons: An Analysis of Academic Pedigree, Social Media Presence, and Patient Ratings”.

Marshall Plan 2.0.

Per Capita Medicare Inflation in the Last Decade: Unit Cost Increases Offset by Reduced Utilization.

Medicare Data Reveal Wide Variety Across Regions Of COVID-19 Fatality Risk

Medicare’s per-Beneficiary Potentially Avoidable Admission Measures Mask True Performance

Association of Declines in End-of-Life Health Care Costs With Fee-for-Service Enrollee Per Capita Expenditures