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May 21, 2014 | KBIA
Rural hospitals play a vital role in delivering quick emergent care to people in some of the more isolated areas of the country. These institutions provide 24/7 emergency services to rural communities where the next closest hospital could...
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May 21, 2014 | Health Affairs Blog
Since the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Physicians (ACP) and American Osteopathic Association (AOA) issued their Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical...
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May 20, 2014 | Health Affairs Blog
In 2011, Arkansas embarked on a multi-payer comprehensive payment reform to convert a majority of private and public payments to a value-based purchasing model. An underlying goal of this effort, the Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative...
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May 8, 2014 | Wichita Business Journal
The American health care system is slowly moving toward a model of care that emphasizes primary care and prevention, but Marci Nielsen says more needs to be done. It’s something that Nielsen continues to advocate for. She is the CEO of...
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May 7, 2014 | FierceHealthPayer
Patient-centered medical homes are more likely to improve quality of care and reduce costs when they're coupled with value-based insurance designs. Other necessary ingredients include effective clinical information support systems and a...
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May 6, 2014 | Health Affairs Blog
As I’ve been discussing in Health Affairs Blog each month, payment reforms can pose a spectrum of financial risk for providers, with financial upside only — such as pay-for-performance programs — on one end, and downside-only models — such...
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May 5, 2014 | Mainebiz
As an internist, Dr. Carl DeMars specializes in solving puzzling diagnostic problems. For the last three years, as the medical director of Mid Coast Health Services' Accountable Care Organization, he's been practicing that skill in the...
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April 29, 2014 | PCPCC Press Release
STRICT EMBARGO: 11:00AM EST, Tuesday, April 29th Contact: Staci GoldbergBelle, Analyst, Strategy & Development, 202-417-2076, staci@pcpcc.net Debra L. Ness, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families, to receive...
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April 23, 2014 | MD Biz News
In past generations, it wasn’t unusual for a family doctor to make a house call, perform a broad range of medical services and offer emotional as well as clinical support. While the traditional house call may be a thing of the past,...
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April 23, 2014 | Dallas/Fort Worth Healthcare Daily
Consulting firm Mercer has just wrapped up what it terms an intensive primary-care pilot project with a large unidentified Dallas employer. Dallas was the third test of a concept Mercer calls an ambulatory intensive care, or A-ICU. The...
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April 22, 2014 | Healthcare Informatics
Implementing an electronic health record is a major undertaking at any provider organization, but is especially challenging in an environment without any IT infrastructure or an information services (IS) department. Yet that’s the goal the...
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April 14, 2014 | Health Affairs Blog
How the country pays for health care is currently at odds with its vision of how health care should be delivered. Traditional fee-for-service health care payments are linked to the volume of visits, rather than the quality of patient-...
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April 14, 2014 | Health Affairs Blog
How the country pays for health care is currently at odds with its vision of how health care should be delivered. Traditional fee-for-service health care payments are linked to the volume of visits, rather than the quality of patient-...
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April 11, 2014 | Medical Xpress
The American College of Physicians (ACP) today unveiled a High Value Care Coordination Toolkit designed to enable more effective and patient-centered communication between primary care and subspecialist doctors. The American...
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April 11, 2014 | FierceHealthPayer
The growing population health movement has led insurers and providers to patient-centered medical homes (PCMH), accountable care organizations and other integrated care models to improve the outcomes and reduce the costs for patient...
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April 10, 2014 | Journal of the American Medical Association
Even though most adult primary care physicians may not realize it, they each can be seen as a chief executive officer (CEO) in charge of approximately $10 million of annual revenue. Consider that a typical primary care physician has...
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April 9, 2014 | Kaiser Health News
Medicare’s release Wednesday of millions of records of payments made to the nation’s doctors comes as the government is looking to find more cost-efficient ways to pay physicians, particularly specialists. The federal government published...
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April 8, 2014 | Medical Economics
  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) places primary care physicians (PCPs) front and center in the mission to improve the health of Americans, and lower overall healthcare costs. But new ACA-derived payment models that reward value, not volume...
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March 25, 2014 | MedPage Today
Researchers found 17 practices operating as "medical homes" in Pennsylvania significantly reduced costs for high-risk patients -- countering negative results published last month that looked at the same patient-centered medical home (PCMH...
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March 24, 2014
Results from a three-year study by Independence Blue Cross (IBC) demonstrating reduced costs and utilization for high-risk patients cared for by patient-centered medical homes appear today in The American Journal of Managed Care. The study...
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