Accountable Care

For example, among narrow network plans, median premiums are 10 percent higher for plans with an academic medical center than for those without.

As it designs a merged network with academic and community care, Georgia's largest health system is lining up value-based payment deals.

CMS programs that focus on alternative payment models such as accountable care organizations, which currently serve eight million people, and population health, are moving a fragmented system tied to fee-for-service into a future in which costs are controlled and care is improved.

Home-based medicine is poised to fix the crises in American healthcare, and old and new companies are getting ready.

Physicians, nurses, and other primary care providers may have more to look forward to than they have to fear from a shift in defining scope of practice.

A regional health system in the Pacific Northwest is taking a major step towards price transparency, but there are still caveats for patients managing their own healthcare costs.

Importance chief financial officers are placing on investments represents a major shift in the past 10 years, experts say.

The pharmacy chain will share prescription and visit information of assigned patients with the participating providers through electronic health record integration.

A healthcare revolution is underway and a fundamental change in healthcare delivery and payment models is taking place. Only highly-integrated networks with proven care management capability will be optimally positioned to compete in the new environment.

Hospitals and healthcare centers are creating networks comprised of the collaborations of providers, physicians, payers and patients -- all toward the goal of increasing the patient experience while decreasing the cost to provide that care.