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Running its own health plan has allowed this Wisconsin system to design a homemade value-based reimbursement model.
Standard and Poor's Global Ratings confirmed its ratings on Washington's Providence Health and Services and California-based St. Joseph Health System will not be affected by the California Attorney General's approval for a merger to proceed.
The ranks of healthcare execs and providers who see value-based payment contracts as detrimental to profits are swelling, a recent study from KPMG showed.
So far, their partnership includes four Sutter Health hospitals and two Alameda Health System hospitals. Since the program began on March 31, Alta Bates and Highland Hospitals have learned that they shared more than 2,000 patients, and over a third of them made six or more ER visits in the past year.
Company has partnered with MemorialCare Health System on a customized health plan option for Boeing's 37,000 employees and their family members in southern California.
In 2013, aggregate hospital costs for 35.6 million hospital stays totaled more than $381 billion.
Less than a decade ago, telemedicine was mainly used by hospitals and clinics for secure doctor-to-doctor consultations. But today, telemedicine has become a more common method for patients to receive routine care at home or wherever they are -- often on their cellphones or personal computers.
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More than 1,200 people died of an overdose in Georgia in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with opioid drugs frequently implicated in those deaths. That's a 10 percent increase over the previous year. Georgia has put a one-year moratorium on issuing licenses to clinics that use medicine to treat people addicted to heroin or painkillers.
Tens of thousands of American lives could be saved each year with a concerted national effort to emulate what top military and civilian trauma centers are doing, a prestigious panel of top medical experts reported Friday.