Healthcare Delivery Advice for 2013: Shore Up Payment Before Shifting Model
Eying a move to an ACO or the patient-centered medical home model in 2013? First, adjust the payment structure to support it, advises Steven Valentine, president of the Camden Group. Shifting to one of...
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More Than Half of Americans Favor State Insurance Exchanges; Lawmakers Split...
On the heels of the inauguration, a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health reports that while lawmakers are split along...
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Lessons from the CMS ACE Bundled Payment Project
Simply put, payment bundling is one of the few policy alternatives available to the healthcare industry in which patients, providers and payors do better, explains Jay Sultan associate vice president...
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Leveraging the PHO Model for Bundled Payment Success
As Medicare begins its ambitious timeline for moving Medicare payments from volume- to value-based models, alternative payment formulas, including bundled payment arrangements for episodes of care,...
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Post-Acute Care Payment Bundles: Catalyst for Clinical Redesign, Improved...
Brooks Rehabilitation jumped at the opportunity to participate in CMS' Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) program to be at the forefront of learning more about healthcare payment reform, said...
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Infographic: Tracking Patient Status for Bundled Payments
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is targeting the wide variations in quality and cost of hip and knee replacements (lower extremity joint replacement [LEJR]) through its LEJR bundled...
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Infographic: Maternity Episodes of Care
The cost of maternity care varies significantly by payer (commercial or Medicaid), by type of birth (vaginal or cesarean section), and by setting (hospital or birth center). Too often, women are not...
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Guest Post: Demonstrating High Quality Care Becomes Paramount in the Bundled...
Optimizing bundled payment model opportunities.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) cancellation of the mandatory payment bundles for cardiac care, surgical hip and femur fracture...
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