Valley Preferred, a provider-owned preferred provider organization aligned with Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa., and Cigna will launch a collaborative accountable care initiative, Cigna's version of accountable care organizations, July 1.
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Accountable care organizations of any shape, size or form face similar, much-talked about challenges, such as trying to manage population health and improve patient outcomes to keeping cost-per-patient low.
Hospitals and health systems are sharing more patient information at more points of care than ever before. From nursing notes to financial data to medication and supply inventory, clinicians now store and share information at every conceivable point along a…
Miami Children's Hospital will be allowed to open a 10-bed labor and delivery unit thanks to a new law, according to a CBS Miami report.
Beacon Health Partners, a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization and independent physician association in Manhasset, N.Y., has signed a patient-centered primary care agreement with Empire BlueCross BlueShield, according to a News Medical report.
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Out of 85 payer arrangements, more than one-third were upside-only risk arrangements, according to new data from Premier healthcare alliance. However, of those upside arrangements, 57 percent of them were in Medicare Shared Savings Program or Medicare Advantage — meaning…
Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pa., has announced plans to establish a pediatric center of excellence.
Kingwood (Texas) Medical Center is expanding its women's and neonatal services with the construction of the $71 million South Tower, according to a Tribune report.
Healthcare leaders are increasingly looking at hospice and home health services as they seek to serve patients throughout the continuum of care. In February, San Diego-based Scripps Health entered the hospice market when it acquired Poway, Calif.-based Horizon Hospice. In…
In the past year, many hospitals, including Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, Ill., Pasco Regional Medical Center in Dade City, Fla., New Milford (Conn.) Hospital, St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo, Calif., and Mesa View Regional Hospital in Mesquite,…