Quality and Safety
One in three family physicians are actively pursuing a move to value-based payment and an additional 19 percent are developing the capabilities for it, a new study sponsored by Humana and conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians has found.
The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday announced its top hospitals, celebrating 98 facilities for what they determined was excellence in quality of care and patient safety.
From 2010 to 2014, there's been 2.1 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions; 87,000 fewer hospital-acquired condition related deaths; and $19.8 billion in costs have been averted, according to CMS Deputy Director Patrick Conway.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking healthcare providers for information to aid in the design of a new survey of patient experience in long-term care hospitals.
This year, Healthcare Finance is asking its audience of healthcare finance decision-makers to help us rank the top issues with its inaugural, "Year that was, year that will be" survey.
OIG will determine the extent to which Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services validated hospital inpatient quality reporting data.
Under the model, hospitals in 67 geographic areas will receive additional payments if quality and spending performance are strong, or if not, have to potentially repay Medicare for a portion of the spending for care for a lower extremity joint replacement procedure.
The goal is to increase the approximately 59 percent of Humana individual Medicare Advantage members who have primary care physicians participating in value-based relationships, to 75 percent by the end of 2017.
Organizations were eligible to submit proposals for two types of projects: those that address issues of quality occurring within the local service area; and those focused on expanding the scope of quality improvement interventions with proven, but limited success.
In a novel initiative, Geisinger Health System is launching a refund program for patients not met with "kindness and compassion," President and CEO David T. Feinberg, MD, announced this week.