Michael Richards, Executive Director of External Affairs at Gundersen Lutheran Health System and Brian Vamstad, Legislative Policy Analyst and Coordinator of the Healthcare Quality Coalition discuss the HQC’s work. Organization Overview The Healthcare Quality Coalition (HQC) began in 2009 as an ad-hoc group of healthcare organizations advocating for reform to the healthcare delivery and payment […]
The Buffalo News reports that single-fee ‘bundle’ for patient care is one path being explored to reform healthcare. Kaleida Health is working with BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York on a bundled payments system for heart surgery. Click here to read the article.
Many of the the cost and quality problems present in the US healthcare system are either shaped or worsened by the way healthcare services are paid for. Below are six payment reforms with the potential to alleviate these issues…. Click here to read the full article.
Patient-centered medical home models have proven that they reduce hospital admission and emergency room use in recent pilots. WellPoint and other payers were involved in medical home test models in Colorado and New Hampshire that demonstrated not only higher-performing care delivery but an example of payment reform with its incentives for care coordination and improved […]
Via the Center for American Progress Our nation‘s health care system is high cost and high volume, but it is certainly not high value. This year, we will spend more than $8, 000 per person on health care, which is more than twice the average of $3, 400 per person in other developed nations. But […]
Pam Pietruszewski, M.A., a health care consultant at the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement’s (ICSI) Professional Partnerships division, explains how a program in Minnesota is changing the way depression care is delivered and paid for. ICSI brought together medical groups, health plans, employers and patients to discuss barriers to establishing a collaborative approach for patients […]
Karen Timberlake, director of the Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform (PHPR) in Wisconsin, shares her insights on implementing new payment reform pilots.The Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform (PHPR) is a unique collaboration of healthcare providers, payers, employers and consumers dedicated to tackling the complex challenge of providing quality healthcare, while reforming a frequently cumbersome payment structure. PHPR, […]
This webinar will explore current approaches to payment reform that offer insight for future federal and state policies. While uncertainty remains regarding the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, there is intensifying pressure for a system-wide focus on controlling health care costs. The U.S. spent nearly 18 percent of GDP on health care in […]
ThedaCare, which likewise has been employing Toyota’s industrial efficiency principles in its hospitals to great effect for more than 10 years, is now seeing great interest from other organizations, as the health care industry moves to reap the rewards of its seemingly-necessary move to… To read the article, click here
John Toussaint, MD, summarizes the three core elements needed to dramatically improve healthcare value in the U.S. John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and author of the recently published Potent Medicine: The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare is featured in this presentation summarizing the three core elements needed to dramatically improve […]
