Jeff Lagasse
Organizations can address these obstacles through a transformation that can lead to a competitive advantage and better health outcomes for patients.
In most cases, PCMHs resulted in cost reduction, quality improvement and utilization, although in some areas results were mixed.
With the financial pressure rising to demonstrate higher levels of quality, leaders need solid programs in place to keep their facilities in check.
The low-cost hospitals with good outcomes are the ones that spend more when the patient is there, and less when they leave.
Employment in healthcare would be hit especially hard, with 919,000 fewer jobs.
Only 7.5 percent of the more than 1.8 million COPD patients analyzed were receiving any form of PAP therapy.
One of the main culprits is the "buy-and-bill" reimbursement model for infused therapies.
In addition to serving as interim president and CEO, Stokes has long served as Memorial Hermann's system chief operating officer.
While certain programs favor large systems, plenty of providers are proving that scale doesn't always matter.
It's been estimated that nearly 30 percent of laboratory testing in the United States may be wasteful.