Delivery System Redesign
- 08/25/2011
This Boston Consulting Group report categorizes three major shifts for health insurers under health care reform.
- 08/19/2011
Supplemental payments are a critical source of revenue to hospitals, especially safety-net hospitals. Yet because they are often disconnected from the specific services provided to specific patients, and thereby delinked from the efficiency or quality of the care provided, supplemental payments may in fact run counter to broader value-based purchasing efforts.
- 08/16/2011
The White House report highlights that the keys to improving health for rural communities are to recruit physicians and make better health technologies available.
- 08/08/2011
U.S. health care practices spend nearly $83,000 annually per physician on administrative costs, nearly four times as much as Canadian practices.
- 08/03/2011
This report from The National eHealth Collaborative, reports on a study of 12 health information exchanges (HIEs) showing that providers have increasingly tapped these types of data clearinghouses in hopes of streamlining and improving the care they deliver.