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Growth Of ACOs And Alternative Payment Models In 2017
Weaving Whole-Person Health Throughout An Accountable Care Framework: The Social ACO
Age-Friendly Health Systems: How Do We Get There?
The Culture Of Data Sharing Has To Change
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Growth Of ACOs And Alternative Payment Models In 2017
Accountable care is an important mechanism used by public and private payers to align health care provider payments with efficient care for defined patient populations. Leavitt Partners, in partnership with the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative...
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Weaving Whole-Person Health Throughout An Accountable Care Framework: The Social ACO
Editor’s note: This is part of a periodic series of Health Affairs Blog posts discussing the Culture of Health , the topic of a November Health Affairs theme issue . In 2014 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced its Culture of Health initiative...
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Age-Friendly Health Systems: How Do We Get There?
As the American population ages, our health care delivery system must embrace significant changes in payment strategies, as well as value-based service provision, to meet the demands of this demographic shift. Health care leaders are clear that without...
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The Culture Of Data Sharing Has To Change
While the role of data and data sharing and its significance in transforming our nation’s health care system is sometimes overlooked, the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) is taking steps to raise awareness of this crucial aspect...
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Making Dental Care A Part Of ACOs
Editor’s note: For more on this topic, stay tuned for the December issue of Health Affairs , which will feature a cluster of articles on oral health. Dental and medical care have almost always been delivered separately and disjointedly. That division...
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What’s In A Word? The Evolution Of Effectiveness In Health Care
The health care world is full of colloquial terms like value or affordability that mean different things to different stakeholders. Often how you define them and what you think of them depends on your place within the overall health ecosystem. It’s a...
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Tue, Jul 07 2016 11:30 AM
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The Tangled Hospital-Physician Relationship
Together, hospital and physician services account for more than half of national health spending. In its 2014 National Health Expenditures estimates, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ actuaries make the hospital (nearly $1 trillion) and...
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Medicare Help At Home
Nine million community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries—about one-fifth of all beneficiaries—have serious physical or cognitive limitations and require long-term services and supports (LTSS) that are not covered by Medicare . Nearly all have...
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The Toyota Production System: What Does It Mean, And What Does It Mean For Health Care?
The Toyota Production System (TPS), also known as the Lean management system (Lean), is already helping health care organizations provide high-quality, low-cost care, and it promises to do far more. However, the potential benefits of TPS/Lean are endangered...
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The Economics Of Paying For Value
Editor’s note: This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog Symposium on Health Law stemming from 4th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review conference hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School...
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A Payment Reform Conundrum: Reconciling Conflicting Policy Goals
In early 2015, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sylvia Burwell, announced goals for shifting Medicare payment from fee-for-service (FFS) to alternative payment models (APMs). Qualifying APMs include, among others, accountable...
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Wed, Jan 01 2016 7:50 AM
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Paying Providers For Value: The Path Forward
The release of the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework White Paper earlier this week is an important milestone in the progress of the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) toward its goal: driving new and innovative health care...
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Diving Into The Pool Of ACO Quality Measures: MSSP Year 2 Performance Metrics
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released the second year of quality performance measures in August 2015. CMS provided data on each of the 33 quality measures and two composite scores for 333 Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable...
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Taking Stock Of Choosing Wisely
Since its launch in 2012, the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely campaign has helped create conversations among clinicians and patients—both in the U.S. and abroad—about unnecessary care, particularly where significant risks of a test or treatment...
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Thu, Dec 12 2015 9:23 AM
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Medicare ACOs Continue To Show Care Improvements — And More Savings Are Possible
On August 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released financial and quality performance data for its accountable care organization (ACO) programs, including results from the third performance year (PY3) of the Pioneer ACO Program...
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Wed, Nov 11 2015 11:02 AM
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