Medicare & Medicaid
Physicians will coordinate care across primary care, specialists, hospitals, laboratories and other services necessary to improve the health status of members.
And that frustration could mean they fall short of payment incentive goals, SA Ignite says.
Pharmaceutical sales rep recruited patients to obtain expensive and medically unnecessary compounded medications.
Hospitals lost nearly $40 billion treating Medicare patients in 2013, experts say.
Data suggest program emphasizes strategies that unintentionally harmed patients with heart failure.
Seniors are more likely to weigh prices for groceries, gas, cable and internet service, and even travel deals, than for a Medicare plan.
Older adults with delirium have longer hospital stays, higher care costs, and increased rates of death and institutionalization.
The insurance industry group says it will work with CMS in testing a demonstration for clinicians to receive APM credit for participating in financial risk-based arrangements with Medicare Advantage plans.
Azar previously served as deputy secretary at Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush.
System scored 90 percent for their quality performance measures, scored perfect in the "At-Risk Population" domain.