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The healthcare industry may look back on 2015 as a "watershed year," during which the switch from volume to value solidified. That's according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, former U.S. National Coordinator of Health Information Technology and...
Many primary care practitioners will be a little poorer next year because of the expiration of a health law program that has been paying them a 10 percent bonus for caring for Medicare patients. Some say the loss may trickle down to the...
 Before she found her way to good primary care, a 60-year-old Massachusetts woman named Sharon spent years cycling through the health care system. Although her chronic illnesses remained about the same all during that time, her...
Michigan employers who shoulder health care expenses for their workforce are optimistic that a new patient care model is helping to transform health care delivery in Michigan. Corporations and small-business owners should continue to push...
On November 20th, 2015, the PCPCC submitted comments to the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework and Progress Tracking Work Group on their recently released Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework Draft White Paper. Our complete...
Jeromie Ballreich learned the value of coordinated care all too early, when as a college student, he suffered a severe spinal cord injury while swimming and nearly drowned.  Ballreich spoke about coordinating care for chronic illnesses...
UnitedHealth Group has fired a warning shot at the Obama administration and state insurance officials, suggesting it will quit the individual marketplacesestablished by the Affordable Care Act by 2017 if more healthy people don't sign up...
When a concerned father told Mary Ann Heran that his daughter, once an enthusiastic student, now hated school and did not want to read, he found more than a sympathetic listener. Heran, the peer care coordinator for the Rhode Island...
For 39 days this fall, a team of AAFP staffers and selected family physician members toiled in unison to construct comprehensive feedback in response to a request for information (RFI) from CMS that was published in the Oct. 1 Federal...
CAPG, the leading U.S. professional association for physician organizations practicing capitated, coordinated care, submitted comments at the request of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on implementation of the...
The National Partnership for Women & Families today submitted comments applauding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for its ongoing commitment to shifting to new payment models that reward quality and value, most...
On November 17th, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) responded to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Request for Information (RFI) regarding "Implementation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System,...
The CMS is working to develop a separate star-rating system for health plans participating in an Obama administration experiment intended to better manage benefits and care for low-income and disabled Americans. In a Nov. 6 notice sent to...
Maryland's Medicare patients are among the most costly in the nation and are more likely than those in many states to return to the hospital soon after leaving. That could be changing as Maryland adopts a new payment model under a special...
WASHINGTON – The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) kicks off its three day Annual Fall Conference today at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. The conference theme, “Investing in Primary Care: Patients, Professionals...
Patient centered medical home (PCMH) practices can improve health outcomes and lower costs for patients, according to a new study by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI). At the end of a five-year study period, and in the...
The idea of single‒payer healthcare in the U.S. has been circulating for decades ‒ and states like Vermont have tried recently to implement their own version ‒ but failed. At the time of its defeat, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin put the...
Every time JoAnna James took her husband, Lawrence, to the doctor, she left the hospital without understanding what was wrong with him. “You ask (doctors) to break it down so you can understand what they are saying and they make you feel...
It’s a program set up by the federal health law that many people have never heard about: an independent organization charged with bringing health care professionals and patients together in cooperative research ventures to find the best...
It's a question of major importance to parents, health policy makers and health care professionals — and a focus of national health care quality improvement initiatives. What keeps children from being readmitted to hospitals in the weeks...

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