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Total Cost of Care: Key Considerations for Hospitals and Health Systems
New payment arrangements and performance measurement programs make managing ‘total cost of care’ essential
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Risk Assumption
These articles explore strategies used by providers to assess, quantify, and mitigate risk as they move from fee-for-service to value-based care.
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Executive Forum
Video: How to Increase Hospital Participation in New Risk- and Value-Based Payment Models
For hospitals and health systems to increase their participation in these programs, they must develop relationships with payers and the government, says Stephen Rosenthal, senior manager of population health at Montefiore Health System.
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Children’s Mercy and HealthChoice Drive Value with Population Health Technology
Key population health technology barriers and functionality for value-based strategies
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How Hospitals Are Achieving Health Equity in Practice and On Paper
Health care leaders outline why health equity is vitally important, in sessions at Joint Commission-American Hospital Association forum
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6 Actions the Feds Can Take to Stabilize Insurance Markets
American Hospital Association chief says steps are needed to protect patients' access to care.
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The Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award
Maryland Hospital Association Wins Davidson Award for Pioneering Efforts on Value
Institutions across state involved in all-payer system, global budgeting.
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3 Strategies to Help Your Organization Make the Shift to Value-Based Care
A combination of old and new techniques can ease hospitals' transition away from fee-for-service pay.
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'Next Generation' ACOs: 4 Factors for Success
As accountable care organizations mature, quality improves and savings mount.
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2016: Best of Blogs
Why Post-Acute Care Partners Are Critical to Hospitals' Future
Downstream providers will have a growing effect on health systems' reputation and bottom line.
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Specialists Can Build Their Own Medical Homes, Gastroenterologist Says
The key to controlling Crohn’s cost is avoiding complications, engaging patients in their care plans.
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Hospitals, Payers Hope Coordination, Innovation Can Help Solve Health Care's Billion-dollar Cancer Crisis
Feds announce participants in new five-year Oncology Care Model effort, set to kick off on July 1.
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Which MACRA Track Makes Strategic Sense?
The act is encouraging conversations between hospitals and physicians on timeline for sharing risk.
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5 Implications for Hospitals Now that Retail is Health Care's New Front Door
The CVS Health associate CMO details the company's growth strategy and the tremendous disruption he expects from telehealth.
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What IBM Watson's Big $2.6B Acquisition Means for the Hospital Field
Analytics company's purchase of Truven on Thursday sets it up as an even larger force in health care.
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Nurse Watch
Rural Hospitals Forced to Get Creative with Recruitment; Essential Traits of Pop Health RN Leaders
Plus, keeping nurses engaged across the country.
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Three Questions With: John Brumsted, M.D.
The CEO of University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, announced ambitious plans to tie 80 percent of its payment to quality of care by 2018.
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CMS Announces Participants in Next Generation of Accountable Care
The new Medicare approach aims to encourage greater adoption of patient risk within ACOs
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Looking Ahead in 2016: Top 10 Trends in Health Care
The greatest challenge for most organizations will be finding the right pace for adapting to or embracing new payment models.
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Four Things Providers Should Consider Before Offering a Health Plan
The most fundamental question facing hospitals and physicians in every community is this: Given the shift in accountability for costs from insurers to hospitals and physicians, does sponsoring a health plan make sense?
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H&HN Daily
After Mass Shootings, Health Care Solidarity; What Does That Really Cost?; Pain in Retirees' Pockets
Health care news you might have missed from around the Web this week.
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