Value-based payment
In a move to help fellow health care organizations improve clinical outcomes, simplify patient access to information, lower costs and meet payer and business requirements, Providence St. Joseph Health has launched Ayin Health Solutions, a for-profit population health management company.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is working on some new valued-based payment models and rural health initiatives, Administrator Seema Verma told participants at a CMS quality conference yesterday.
AHA STATEMENT ON ACO FINAL RULE
A new AHA report highlights some of the significant changes and future challenges that impact hospitals and health systems.
Seemingly everyone agrees that consumers should have a stronger voice in value-driven health care and how benefit plans are designed. What hasn't been clear, until now, is how to ensure this. The Health Care Transformation Task Force, a consortium of well-known payers, providers, purchasers and…
AHA today urged the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General to create new safe harbors under the anti-kickback statute to enable hospitals, physicians and patients “to work together to achieve value-based care and a patient-centered system.”
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The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee yesterday held a hearing examining legal and regulatory barriers to innovation and value-based care in Medicare.
Embedding certain decision support alerts into hospital electronic health records can lower costs, readmissions and complications for patients, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Managed Care.
Seventy-one percent of respondents predict that, over the next five years, their organization will increase collaboration with other providers and payers on population health management as a strategy to improve clinical outcomes.