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Category: Affordability & Delivery System
Happy Accident Lowers Healthcare Costs
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased emphasis on quality reporting for doctors and hospitals in an effort to improve care and, hopefully, improve health outcomes for patients. Whether or not this will be accomplished is yet to be seen. However, Continue Reading …
Coverage that Doesn’t Cover It
As a medical student living in Texas, two things are very familiar to me: having uninsured family members and being solicited by said family members for medical advice. A few weeks ago, a relative approached me at a family BBQ Continue Reading …
Global Payments Change Spending & Quality
In an effort to slow the growth of health care spending, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts, an early reform state, entered into alternative quality contracts (AQC) with providers. AQCs are two-sided contracts that share savings if spending is Continue Reading …
Taking a Lesson from Taiwan
Government payers like are attempting to move away from the current fee-for-service model of health care billing—which some believe provides incentive for doctors to perform unnecessary tests and procedures—in favor of a new payment model: . Pay-for-performance programs link performance Continue Reading …
Smaller is Better
More than 3.9 million “ambulatory care-sensitive” admissions of adults were made to US hospitals in 2010, with as much as 40% of them being preventable. But which primary care practices are best at preventing these kind of avoidable hospitalizations? Researchers Continue Reading …
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