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After addressing inefficiencies in three common procedures, patients care improved and costs fell by up to 11 percent, results showed.
Avoidable readmissions within 30 days of initial discharge are estimated to cost Medicare more than $17 billion annually.
Payments to outpatient care centers saw the most growth.
Running its own health plan has allowed Marshfield Clinic to design a value-based reimbursement model that rewards physicians for quality, clean coding and cost maintenance.
While value-based care is making the move more attractive, getting an insurance product off the ground isn't the easiest.
Health system-owned plans now represent 52 percent of health insurance products, AIS said.
Talks between Allina Health negotiators and the Minnesota Nurses Association team broke off on September 3rd when the hospital team left the table, according to a statement by the nurses union.
Between 1991 and 2006, more than 617,000 hospitalizations related to three common "premise plumbing pathogens" resulted in around $9 billion in Medicare payments -- an average of $600 million a year.
Almost $1,000 per procedure examined at the academic medical center, UCSF researchers find.
AAP will use the funds to provide technical assistance and education to clinicians at community health centers and other healthcare sites around the country.