Numerous healthcare organizations recently shuttered medical units or terminated services to shore up finances, focus on more in-demand services or improve patient care lapses.
Care Coordination
This past January’s announcement of an additional 124 new Accountable Care Organizations implies that we have reached an Alternative Payment Model (APM) tipping point, with ACOs becoming more prevalent than standard Fee-for-Service payments, echoing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
Despite the elimination of mandatory bundled payments by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), commercial insurers are investing in this model based upon the positive results they’ve seen from the CMS demonstration models and their own trial experiences.
UnitedHealthcare's bundled payment program for knee, hip and spine procedures has generated about $18 million in employer savings across 115 employers.
Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health is teaming up with UnitedHealthcare to offer more coordinated care for Medicare Advantage patients.
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The move to value-based care is not happening tomorrow — it's here today.
It’s clear that healthcare providers are increasingly recognizing and accepting that value-based payment is here to stay. The tremendous growth in Accountable Care Organization (ACO) arrangements is a testament to this fact.
While English is the primary language used in the U.S., there are at least 350 different languages spoken in the nation today, and millions of healthcare patients who prefer to engage in a language they understand.
The University of Chicago Medicine joined six leading U.S. hospitals to offer specialized medical care to patients from the United Arab Emirates, becoming part of a network of preferred providers for Emirati patients.
A patient's journey through the American healthcare system is difficult to map. However, there is one experience most patients will certainly face: a disconnected and often oppositional relationship between their health insurer and provider.