By Don Michaels, PhD – The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care may be moving slowly, but there’s little doubt that the change is inevitable. According to a recent survey by PwC, alternative incentive based payment models like bundles and capitation currently make up a small percentage of payments.
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By Anna Gorman – California and the federal government agreed in concept Saturday on a $6.2-billion deal to reform the Medicaid program and to help pay for care of the low-income population. The largest share of the funds – nearly $3.3 billion – is aimed at helping public hospitals improve the safety and quality of patient care.
By Sarianne Gruber – In a recent conversation with WPC Healthcare’s Chief Data Scientist, Damian Mingle shares how he developed an algorithm for detecting West Nile disease, which will be presented in Sri Lanka at the Global Public Health Conference in December 2015.
By Justin Giovannelli, JoAnn Volk, Kevin Lucia, Ashley Williams & Kayla Connor – The promise of the Affordable Care Act was not just to broaden access to health insurance, but also to enable more Americans to have coverage they could count on if they became sick.
By Andy Slavitt – Recently, prescription drugs have been in the news a lot, particularly with respect to their cost. Millions of Americans rely on prescription medications to manage chronic illnesses or treat acute conditions, and drug innovation has resulted in better health outcomes for people across our nation.
By Elizabeth H. Bradley, Amanda Brewster & Leslie Curry – Many people, particularly older patients, are readmitted soon after being discharged from the hospital. These unexpected return visits are expensive and challenging for patients and their families, and costly for Medicare. Nearly 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries experience an unplanned hospital readmission, with an estimated cost to the American public of about $26 billion per year.
By Sarianne Gruber – A statistician by training, Elizabeth Stuart, PhD is a professor of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in the age of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), her research on developing and applying methods to estimate causal effects is a hot button topic.
By David McCready – There is a growing interest among many hospitals to migrate toward alternative service delivery models referred to as “service lines.” The concept with clinical service lines is to shift the hospital’s care delivery model from the traditional specialty silos to a more horizontal organizational structure.
The HFMA MAP Event took place in Ft. Lauderdale and included the Women’s Leadership Conference – “here”. Check out these highlights like Revenue Cycle’s top 10 issues including telemedicine, need for evidence-based best practices, and shifting from volume to value.