Quality and Safety
The University of Michigan Health System reports that a four-year Medicare physician group demonstration project, similar to an accountable care organization, has saved more than $15 million in the cost of care.
The Marshfield Clinic is among 10 large physician groups participating in a Medicare demonstration project that reportedly indicates they can provide quality patient care while saving Medicare millions of dollars.
Managed Health Services Indiana, the Centene Corporation's health maintenance organization, has achieved national Health Plan Accreditation with a commendable status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
Jerry Buchanan, program manager at technology consulting firm eMids Technologies, shares five ways that consumer-driven healthcare proves to be game-changing.
To best meet the goals of optimized, coordinated patient care and also help curb costs, physicians should be at the center of accountable care organizations, the American Medical Association told the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a Dec. 2 letter.
Because he thinks in stories, Atul Gawande - surgeon, author, professor - started a recent lecture about the costs and failures of the country's healthcare system with a story about a middle-aged car mechanic in Alabama.
New laws help feds dump 'pay and chase' approach.
Accountable Care Organizations may not ultimately keep that name, but experts say the concept of organizing providers and payers into a network striving for higher quality and more efficient care is destined to become a reality fairly soon.
The University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle have been named "Top Hospitals of the Decade" by The Leapfrog Group.
Members of the Service Employees International Union's United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW) will go on strike Friday at five Hospital Corporation of America hospitals in California in an effort to target what they call unfair labor practices by the national company.