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September 29, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS Innovation Center is awarding $685 million to more than three dozen physician groups, health systems and other organizations for training, education and investment in information technology, care coordination and quality-...
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September 28, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
Today, almost 60 million Americans are covered by Medicare — and 10,000 become eligible for Medicare every day. For many years, Medicare was primarily a pure fee-for-service (FFS) payment system that paid health care providers based on...
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September 23, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
Maintaining the staffing and care coordination requirements of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) costs an average of $8600 per month, and even partial implementation of PCMH features can cost approximately $105,000 per full-time...
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September 21, 2015 | Health Leaders Media
Twenty-six percent of the 353 MSSP and Pioneer ACOs qualified for shared savings nationwide in performance year 2014, according to CMS. Nearly half (47%) of the MSSP and Pioneer ACOs in Premier's PACT collaborative qualified in the same...
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September 21, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS' Pioneer accountable care organizations are reducing the number of services they provide to patients that have minimal clinical benefit, a study in JAMA Internal Medicine found. The results suggest that the ACO program is having...
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September 21, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
As healthcare organizations sit down to plan their operational strategies for the next few years, they may find themselves staring into a maelstrom of uncertainty, rapid evolution, and unpredictable change.  With the timing of the EHR...
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September 21, 2015 | California Health Report
Los Angeles County’s Department of Health Services is betting it can save money while radically improving the health of some of its sickest and most challenging patients. Last March, county health officials began targeting individuals in...
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September 18, 2015 | AAFP News
Primary care physicians spend a good many practice hours caring for patients with multiple medical conditions. Family physicians, in particular, are experts at coordinating the care of so-called complex patients. But the term "complex"...
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September 17, 2015 | JAMA
Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, recently announced the department’s intention to tie most Medicare fee-for-service payments to value by 2018. Most commercial insurers already incentivize quality to some degree and...
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September 15, 2015 | AAFP News
Most family physicians likely have wondered at the end of a particularly frustrating day why certain technologies or systems -- say, for instance, electronic health records (EHRs) -- that were created with the best of intentions to make...
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September 15, 2015 | Hospitals & Health Networks
Ask Anthony Stavola, M.D., how adopting the patient-centered medical home model has changed the way he practices medicine, and he’ll answer with a personal anecdote. It involves a patient with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and a...
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September 10, 2015 | Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, along with several of New Jersey's leading health systems and a major multispecialty physician group announced today that they have formed a unique, first-of-its-kind statewide alliance. The...
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September 9, 2015 | AAFP News
Expectations were high that accountable care organizations (ACOs) could generate significant savings to Medicare, and the latest report from CMS(www.cms.gov) on their 2014 performance illustrates gradual but continued savings. The 20 ACOs...
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September 8, 2015 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
On September 8th, 2015, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the proposed rule for the 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. In the letter, ...
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September 5, 2015 | Modern Healthcare
Two years ago, leaders of the Buckeye Community Health Plan decided to take action after noting an increasing number of babies in Ohio being born with symptoms that included seizures, rapid breathing and vomiting. They were suffering from...
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September 3, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
On April 16, 2015 President Barack Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) which, among other things, finally repeals the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) mechanism of updating fees to the Physician Fee Schedule...
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September 3, 2015 | Health Affairs Blog
Across the United States health care system, there is a growing imperative to deliver more patient-centered care. Listening to the voice of the patient is increasingly recognized as an essential part of this transformation. Health care is...
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September 2, 2015 | AAFP News
In what has long been an annual endeavor, the AAFP once again has meticulously researched CMS' recommendations for the Medicare physician fee schedule for the coming year and sought ways to improve the proposal in family physicians' favor...
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September 1, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
More than 1,100 Georgia pediatricians have joined a new physician-led network that aims to improve quality of care and eventually contract for payments from insurers. The sign-ups represent roughly one-third of the pediatricians...
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August 31, 2015 | HIT Consultant
Telemedicine is about reaching out to patients in remote locations, but limited to videoconferencing between patients and health providers. It is similar to a face-to-face service with the exception that the patient and primary care...
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