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System adapts car maker's production system for healthcare, changing longstanding practices such as how to store equipment, schedule surgeries and discharge patients.

The worst-offending hospitals will see their Medicare reimbursements slashed by as much as 3 percent, though many on the list will be penalized less than 1 percent.

Last December, a 37-year-old patient with dissociative disorder died after hanging herself with a bedsheet and closet doorknob, a suicide that could have been prevented if Timberlawn used best practices.

According to the company, the analytics service will be especially helpful as the ACO prepares to expand its value-based care model to other insurers and suppliers.

People enrolling in public health insurance exchanges are more willing to switch plans, placing pressure on insurers to continually win over shoppers based on price, product and service, according to a new report by Deloitte.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the State of Rhode Island are contracting with a Medicare-Medicaid plan to provide integrated benefits to approximately 30,000 eligible enrollees.

Authors say there is need for more accountability in the Affordable Care Act's charity care standards, especially among nonprofit hospitals, which qualify for about $24 billion in federal, state, and local tax exemptions annually.

Disruptive behavior is not new, but the unprecedented publicity over Cecil the Lion's death is a reminder that the reputation of a physician, nurse, administrator or an executive can become a liability overnight.

When Michael Kamins opened the letter from his health plan he was enraged by what he encountered, a part of critics see as medical necessity's "last hurrah."

The companies said the deal will make them better able to improve their post-acute care services and create better value of care for their partner hospitals and clinicians, which in the age of value-based reimbursements will improve bottom lines for all involved.