Susannah M. Bernheim, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)Cards
Appointments
Additional Titles
Director, Quality Measurement Programs (CORE)
Assistant Clinical Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine
Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
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Appointments
Additional Titles
Director, Quality Measurement Programs (CORE)
Assistant Clinical Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine
Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Contact Info
Appointments
Additional Titles
Director, Quality Measurement Programs (CORE)
Assistant Clinical Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine
Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Contact Info
About
Titles
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Director, Quality Measurement Programs (CORE); Assistant Clinical Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine; Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Biography
Susannah M. Bernheim, MD, MHS is Director of Quality Measurement at the Yale/Yale-New Haven Hospital Centers for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), Core Faculty in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degrees at Yale University and her MD at the University of California, San Francisco. After completing her post-graduate training in Family Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Bernheim was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at Yale University, earning a Master’s degree in Health Sciences Research and completing an additional year of research training in the Section of Geriatrics as a fellow in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Related Research. She spent two years as Deputy Director of Performance Management at the Yale-New Haven Health System before joining CORE. At CORE, Dr. Bernheim leads work funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies to develop the next generation of performance measures across multiple care settings. Dr. Bernheim's research focuses on health care quality, new payment policies, and health care disparities.
Appointments
General Internal Medicine
Associate Professor on TermPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- MHS
- Yale University (2006)
- MD
- University of California at San Francisco (2000)
- BA
- Yale University (1991)
Research
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Publications Timeline
Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM
Yongfei Wang, MS
Zhenqiu Lin, PhD
Arjun Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MHS
Jeph Herrin, PhD
Elizabeth Triche
Publications
2024
Measuring Equity in Readmission as an Assessment of Hospital Performance—Reply
Weerahandi H, Nash K, Bernheim S. Measuring Equity in Readmission as an Assessment of Hospital Performance—Reply. JAMA 2024, 331: 1677-1678. PMID: 38648068, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.4354.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricElevating Quality, Outcomes, and Patient Experience Through Value-Based Care: CMS Innovation Center’s Quality Pathway
Bernheim S, Rudolph N, Quinton J, Driessen J, Rawal P, Fowler E. Elevating Quality, Outcomes, and Patient Experience Through Value-Based Care: CMS Innovation Center’s Quality Pathway. NEJM Catalyst 2024, 5 DOI: 10.1056/cat.24.0132.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricPre-COVID-19 hospital quality and hospital response to COVID-19: examining associations between risk-adjusted mortality for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and pre-COVID-19 hospital quality
Peter D, Li S, Wang Y, Zhang J, Grady J, McDowell K, Norton E, Lin Z, Bernheim S, Venkatesh A, Fleisher L, Schreiber M, Suter L, Triche E. Pre-COVID-19 hospital quality and hospital response to COVID-19: examining associations between risk-adjusted mortality for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and pre-COVID-19 hospital quality. BMJ Open 2024, 14: e077394. PMID: 38553067, PMCID: PMC10982775, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077394.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsHospital qualityPatient experiencePre-COVID-19Medicare patientsShort-term acute care hospitalsCritical access hospitalsAcute care hospitalsFuture public health emergenciesHigher odds of mortalityIn-hospitalRisk-adjusted mortalityOdds of mortalityCare deliveryAccess hospitalsEffective careCOVID-19-related deathsAssociated with mortalityCare structuresHospital characteristicsPublic health emergencySummary scoreMedicare beneficiariesHigher oddsHospital responseRSMRsAssessing the accuracy of race‐and‐ethnicity data in the Outcome and Assessment Information Set
Martino S, Elliott M, Haas A, Peltz A, Saliba D, Hassan S, Rothenberg E, Keshawarz A, Rushkin M, Gildner J, Orr N, Hager M, Myers R, Kiser R, Bernheim S. Assessing the accuracy of race‐and‐ethnicity data in the Outcome and Assessment Information Set. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2024, 72: 2508-2515. PMID: 38511724, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.18889.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricConceptsCenters for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesRace-and-ethnicityConsumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and SystemsCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrative dataAssessment of Healthcare Providers and SystemsMedicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare ProvidersConsumer Assessment of Healthcare ProvidersHealthcare Providers and SystemsAdministrative dataHealth record dataHome health agenciesOASIS dataSelf-reported informationSelf-reported dataRecord-level dataHealthcare providersConsumer AssessmentAssess disparitiesMedicaid ServicesHealth agenciesOlder AmericansData SystemPatient assessmentSelf-reportMedicare coverageMeasuring Equity in Readmission as a Distinct Assessment of Hospital Performance
Nash K, Weerahandi H, Yu H, Venkatesh A, Holaday L, Herrin J, Lin Z, Horwitz L, Ross J, Bernheim S. Measuring Equity in Readmission as a Distinct Assessment of Hospital Performance. JAMA 2024, 331: 111-123. PMID: 38193960, PMCID: PMC10777266, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.24874.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsBlack patientsPatient populationHospital characteristicsHospital-wide readmission measureDual-eligible patientsHospital patient populationCross-sectional studyMeasures of hospitalHealth care qualityPatient demographicsReadmission ratesClinical outcomesPatient raceEligible hospitalsReadmissionMAIN OUTCOMEReadmission measuresMedicare dataUS hospitalsHospitalCare qualityPatientsMedicaid ServicesOutcomesLower percentage
2020
Illuminating Hospital Disparities in Readmissions for Patients with Social Risk Factors: Comparing Hospital Performance Using Two Different Approaches
Herrin J, Peltz A, Zhou S, Du C, Barbo A, Charania S, Schwartz M, Lin Z, Bernheim S. Illuminating Hospital Disparities in Readmissions for Patients with Social Risk Factors: Comparing Hospital Performance Using Two Different Approaches. Health Services Research 2020, 55: 93-94. PMCID: PMC7440563, DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13462.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSocial risk factorsAbsolute risk differenceDual eligibility statusHospital disparitiesRisk factorsDual eligibilityMedicare patientsReadmission ratesOdds ratioRisk differenceSocioeconomic disparitiesMedicare FFS patientsRetrospective cohort studyClinical risk factorsCommon clinical conditionHospitalized Medicare patientsSES indexStandard Analytic FilesVeterans Affairs hospitalEligibility statusMedicare Part AHospital outcomesCohort studyFFS patientsHospital readmission
2014
SEX DIFFERENCES IN 30-DAY READMISSION RISK IN YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Dreyer R, Ranasinghe I, Dharmarajan K, Wang Y, Hsieh A, Bernheim S, Krumholz H. SEX DIFFERENCES IN 30-DAY READMISSION RISK IN YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2014, 63: a260. DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(14)60260-6.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2011
DEVELOPMENTS IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: CHANGES IN RISK-STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATES FROM 1995 TO 2008
Kulkarni V, Wang Y, Normand S, Bernheim S, Krumholz H. DEVELOPMENTS IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION MORTALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: CHANGES IN RISK-STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATES FROM 1995 TO 2008. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2011, 57: e1154. DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(11)61154-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEFFECTS OF REGIONAL MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PENETRATION ON RISK-STANDARDIZED OUTCOME MEASURES
Kulkarni V, Shah S, Bernheim S, Wang Y, Normand S, Drye E, Krumholz H. EFFECTS OF REGIONAL MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PENETRATION ON RISK-STANDARDIZED OUTCOME MEASURES. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2011, 57: e1224. DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(11)61224-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchINDENTIFYING VALUE IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION CARE: COMPARING HOSPITALS ON MEDICARE COSTS AND MORTALITY
Wang O, Wang C, Bernheim S, Drye E, Krumholz H. INDENTIFYING VALUE IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION CARE: COMPARING HOSPITALS ON MEDICARE COSTS AND MORTALITY. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2011, 57: e1171. DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(11)61171-6.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
News
News
- April 03, 2024
Assessing Equity Measures in Hospital Readmissions
- April 17, 2023
Adjust For Social Risk Factors in a Measure of Quality? It Depends, Says New Study
- January 14, 2020
Study: Hospital readmission policy did not increase patients’ mortality risk
- January 14, 2020Source: Becker's Hospital Review
ACA hospital readmission program did not increase patients' mortality risk