The concept behind telemedicine is very simple: connect patients to physicians who can provide care from a distance. Perhaps the term telemedicine drums up images of a physician connecting with a rural patient through a video chat. But the way…
Integration & Physician Issues
In an effort to reduce primary care shortages, Oklahoma's Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law legislation that provides more than $3 million to create medical residency programs at rural hospitals in the state, according to an Oklahoman report.
Health plans have the proper access to capital, professional management experience, information technology infrastructure and experience with financial risk to lead the way in forming more accountable care organizations, according to an editorial published in the Journal of the American…
In 2009, the healthcare sector represented 17.6 percent of the United States gross domestic product. Moreover, economists predict that without an inflection point, it will be over 20 percent by 2018. Even more troubling is that nearly 30 percent of…
Both commercial payors and CMS are actively seeking ways to cut the cost of healthcare, apparent in the fast rise of accountable care organizations. It's a trending topic of today's healthcare industry, and many hospitals and health systems are gravitating…
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Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has acquired the Park City (Utah) Clinic, and the two plan to form an accountable care organization, according to a Park Record report.
Davenport, Iowa-based Genesis Health System, which serves the Quad Cities region of Iowa and Illinois, is teaming up with Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield to from an accountable care organization, according to a Des Moines Register report.
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association highlighted its patient-centered medical home collaborations with providers across the nation at a Capitol Hill briefing on Monday.
The Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston has been providing accountable care since 1949, employing physicians who collaborate to make evidence-based treatment decisions, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
In the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative, an important decision involves selecting the length of the episode. According to the CMS application guidelines, organizations choosing a minimum 30 day episode must propose a discount equal to at least 3…