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Innovation
Hospital at Home Initiatives Look Increasingly Viable for Health Systems
Initiative gathers steam as Medicare ponders 2 APMs and new Mount Sinai study confirms improved outcomes.
Strategy
Ohio Collaborative Reduces Hospitalizations, Costs
A primary care collaborative in the Cleveland area uses best practices to avert nearly 6,000 hospitalizations over five years, with...
Clinical Care
CMS Pushed to Extend ACO Track 1 Option
Advocates warn that ACOs unready to assume downside risk will drop out of the program if CMS does not extend...
Clinical Care
Medicare Pay-for-Performance Didn't Deliver
Study finds the Value-Based Payment Modifier program that ran from 2013 to 2016 failed to deliver on its central promise...
Strategy
Ambulatory Patient Safety Hinges on Addressing Clinician Stress
More needs to be done to improve patient safety in the outpatient setting, said the American College of Physicians in...
Finance
ACOs Want Risk Adjustment, Benchmark Tweaks
Medicare ACOs generated $843 million in savings in 2016 and demonstrated strong quality scores. ACO advocates believe those numbers could...
Strategy
Safety Net Clinician Burnout Smolders
RAND survey of physicians and nurses at nearly 300 federally qualified health centers across the nation finds increasing dissatisfaction with...
Clinical Care
NCQA Redesigns Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
Based on provider and payer feedback, the revised program will feature annual check-ins and reporting instead of the current program's...
Clinical Care
3 Ways to Reimagine Healthcare Delivery
Speakers at an NCQA event suggest that some services could be delivered differently, by non-physicians working outside of hospitals.