Leaders in an accountable care model in Sacramento, Calif. — including Blue Shield of California, the California Public Employees Retirement System (the purchaser), Hill Physicians Medical Group and Sacramento-area hospitals owned by San Francisco-based Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West)…
Integration & Physician Issues
"The healthcare industry looks eerily akin to a bubble economy," says John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value in Appleton, Wis. and CEO emeritus of ThedaCare. The country spends $2.5 trillion annually on healthcare, which accounts…
Although overall physician engagement took a slight hit last year, more physicians in 2011 believed their organizations would be successful in the coming years compared with 2010, according to results from "The State of Staff Physician Engagement: 2011 in Review."
Manchester, Md.-based multispecialty physician group the Carroll Health Group has received patient-centered medical home recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, according to a Carroll County Times report.
There are several catalysts driving the healthcare industry's push for new payment models such as the prospect of a more competitive insurance market — if insurance exchanges develop as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; clinical integration…
Advertisement
Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet light to kill pathogens such as bacteria and viruses.
Medicare's use of national growth factors to set target goals for accountable care organizations may cause ACOs participating in the Pioneer and Shared Savings programs to gain or lose money regardless of whether they improve delivery of care, according to…
Former Democratic presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis writes in a recent Boston Globe editorial that accountable care organizations are not the solution to controlling healthcare costs.
Providers fail to notice three-quarters of all performance incentives and end up losing an estimated $20 billion annually, according to findings from a recent ZS Associates study.
Hospital executives participate in a balancing act everyday. They have to keep many different people and organizations satisfied, and it isn't always easy. Further, the transformation from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance models throw another to-do on an executive's agenda: How to…