Physician

Internal Medicine

Norbert Goldfield works in the field of Internal Medicine. He graduated from New York Medical College - Metropolitan Hospital Center. He received 2 awards: "Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program" and "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program". Norbert Goldfield is also published. He has 98 publications published. The lastest publication: "Achieving short-term Medicare savings through the expansion of the prospective payment system.' Norbert Goldfield accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Misinterpretation of meaning and intended use of potentially preventable readmissions.
• Adjusting medicaid managed care payments for changes in health status.
• Newly found interest--community health workers (CHWs).
• Many challenges of implementing the medical home. From the editor.
• Paying for outcomes, not performance: lessons from the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System.
• Focus on medical homes.
• Introduces 2 new topics.
• Building the affordable medical home.
• Achieving cost control, care coordination, and quality improvement through incremental payment system reform.
• Paying for quality and coordination: aligning provider payments with global goals.
• Developing a prospective payment system based on episodes of care.
• Hospital complications: linking payment reduction to preventability.
• Redesigning the Medicare inpatient PPS to reduce payments to hospitals with high readmission rates.
• Identifying potentially preventable readmissions.
• Identifying potentially preventable complications using a present on admission indicator.
• Redesigning Medicare inpatient PPS to adjust payment for post-admission complications.
• Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs): a classification system for risk-adjusted capitation-based payment and health care management.
• A closer look at all-patient refined DRGs.
• Response to Commentaries on "Paying for On-Patent Pharmaceuticals: Limit Prices and the Emerging Role of a Pay for Outcomes Approach".
• Paying for On-Patent Pharmaceuticals: Limit Prices and the Emerging Role of a Pay for Outcomes Approach.
• Potentially preventable events: an actionable set of measures for linking quality improvement and cost savings.
• Community participation and (not or) individual empowerment: the key to improving health outcomes and stabilizing healthcare costs.
• Outpatient services.
• Strategies to decrease the rate of preventable readmission to hospital.
• The evolution of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs): from its beginnings in case-mix and resource use theory, to its implementation for payment and now for its current ut...
• How important is it to identify avoidable hospital readmissions with certainty?
• Challenges and benefits of adding laboratory data to a mortality risk adjustment method.
• Ambulatory managers and researchers in ambulatory care services.
• Implementing a new payment system for primary care physicians: a response to Schoenbaum et al and other feedback.
• A response to the Prometheus proposal--well intended but impossible to implement.
• Reforming the primary care physician payment system: eliminating E & M codes and creating the financial incentives for an "advanced medical home".
• Ambulatory Patient Groups, Version 3.0--a classification system for payment of ambulatory visits.
• "Progressive" healthcare cost control: the start of a new series.
• Standardize concepts, not tools for quality improvement.
• Commonwealth Care Alliance. A new approach to coordinated care for the chronically ill and frail elderly that organizationally integrates consumer involvement.
• The crisis confronting Medicaid.
• Primary care in the United States: profiling performance in primary care in the United States.
• Diabetes control in 3 villages in Palestine: a community-based quality improvement intervention.
• Pay for performance: an excellent idea that simply needs implementation.
• An overview: physician payment reform--the key step in health system improvement.
• Physician productivity and quality--a commentary.
• On "risk-adjusting acute myocardial infarction mortality: are APR-DRGs the right tool?".
• The prospective risk adjustment system.
• Physicians' responses to diagnostic test guidelines.
• Measurement of quality and market opportunities.
• Financing for AIDS care.
• Clinical AIDS update.
• Quality assurance in a preferred provider organization.
• The clinical development of an ambulatory classification system: version 2.0 Ambulatory Patient Groups.
• Evaluation of a prospective payment system for hospital-based outpatient care.
• Episodes of illness: a summary of the state of the art and future directions.
• Can patients with chronic illness have trust in managed care organizations? Yes, if the rules change.
• What will future historians say about the Clinton health reform act.
• The Magic Kingdom of managed care and managed competition.
• National health reform advocates retrench and prepare for Medicare.
• A guide to the upcoming health reform debate.
• Truman and the medical profession: replay or lesson for the nineties.
• Medicare and Medicaid: the first successful effort to increase access to health care.
• It's management not payment that we should focus on: comments on Welch.
• Jobless need more than free doctor visits.
• Payment and provider profiling of episodes of illness of clinical illnesses involving rehabilitation.
• The looming fight over health care reform: what we can learn from past debates.
• Caring for Indochinese refugees.
• Acanthosis nigricans in adolescents. Two case reports and guidelines for management.
• Trends in adolescent development in the People''s Republic of China.
• Patient understanding of oral contraceptive side effects.
• Cardiovascular evaluation of adolescents and young adults. Salient aspects of the examination.
• Compliance with mammography recommendations at the work site.
• Computer assistance with information needs in clinical medicine.
• Ethical considerations of informed consent: a case study.
• Measurement and management of quality in managed care organizations: alive and improving.
• The hubris of health status measurement: a clarification of its role in the assessment of medical care.
• The use of administrative data as the first step in the continuous quality improvement process.
• Health reform principles for quality: recommendations for the congressional debate.
• The paradoxes of national health reform during the Wilson era.
• Efforts to implement national health reform in the United States.
• The Nixon years: failed national health reform from both parties.
• Why we cannot agree on the direction of health reform: an exploration of American values.
• The AMA faces down FDR and wins.
• Policy issues in implementation of outpatient prospective payment.
• A quality improvement process for ambulatory prospective payment.
• Ambulatory encounter systems: implications for payment and quality.
• The protocol solution: a mildly acidic commentary.
• The high point of efforts to improve access to health care by "documentation".
• Continuous quality improvement at the crossroads: contradictions and challenges.
• Collecting and using information from patients: a summary guide of recent practical research.
• The changing role of physicians in hospital governance.
• The Clinton health care proposal: reform squandered again!
• Understanding your managed care practice: the critical role of case mix systems.
• Case mix, risk adjustment, reinsurance, and health reform.
• Profiling of health care professionals, quality improvement, and ambulatory case mix systems: a commentary on the article by Douglas Cave.
• Design of a prospective payment patient classification system for ambulatory care.
• Methods of compensating physicians contracting with managed care organizations.
• Achieving short-term Medicare savings through the expansion of the prospective payment system.
• Deming meets Braverman: toward a progressive analysis of the continuous quality improvement paradigm.
• Development of the ICD-10 procedure coding system (ICD-10-PCS).
• Case-mix measurements for understanding and managing healthcare institutions.

Schools

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• University At Buffalo State University Of New York School Of Medicine

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program
• Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program

Education

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• Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
• New York Medical College - Metropolitan Hospital Center
• University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1922020056
NPPES Provider LastName		GOLDFIELD
NPPES Provider FirstName		NORBERT
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		011990001
NPPES Provider State		MA
Specialty Description		Internal Medicine
Total Claim Count		3298.0
Distinct Opioid Count		5.0
Opioid Claim Count		263.0
Percent Opioid Claims		7.97

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1922020056
Last Name Of The Provider	GOLDFIELD
First Name Of The Provider	NORBERT
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