Quality and Safety
But there's a catch. How much any individual makes will be determined more by organizational success than individual performance.
Medicare is giving bonuses to a majority of hospitals that it graded on quality, but many of those rewards will be wiped out by penalties the government has issued for other shortcomings, federal data show.
As hundreds of hospitals face steep fines, one doctor explains how class, poverty and neighborhood demographics affect the trend.
Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.
Hospital initiatives to slash the number of infections patients pick up while under their care are working, a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found, though results vary by state.
Only four groups out of 48 that were studied in the Community-based Care Transition Program significantly cut readmissions compared with those of a control group.
Hundreds of healthcare workers at California's Kaiser Permanente facilities walked off the job this week, striking over a lack of staffing by the hospital operator that they say is affecting care for mentally ill patients.
As new owners of physician practices, many health systems are on a mission to integrate clinics with their hospitals.
The "medical home" concept has become counterproductive. It is muddling the debate about how to improve medical care without raising costs, and it is punishing primary care clinics.
While prices have increased everywhere, the rate of increase was much lower at hospitals in states using the site.