Search results for "Bundled payments"
Make quality metrics work for you
Quality metrics are key to achieving fame and fortune as a hospitalist, attendees learned from Win Whitcomb, MD, a hospitalist and chief medical officer for Remedy Partners, a health care services company in New York City that administers bundled payments.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/04/16/2.htm
16 Apr 2014
Affordable Care Act pressures intensivists
The act's emphasis on cost containment and care efficiency will be felt most acutely in the ICU, speaker predicts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/critcare1.htm
15 Mar 2014
Hospital medicine matures
Post-acute care is emerging as a dedicated field of practice on a path similar to hospital medicine's a decade or so ago.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/coverstory.htm
15 Oct 2012
Recent Research
Hyperglycemia guideline, in-hospital death rates, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/04/rr.htm
15 Apr 2012
Hopes and fears abound at National Bundled Payment Summit
Speakers were optimistic about the potential to reduce health care costs without decreasing profits.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/01/summit.htm
15 Jan 2012
Readmissions frequent, one-quarter related to new problem
Rates and causes of hospital readmissions, and the infrequency of follow-up care, were quantified in a new research brief from the National Institute for Health Care Reform.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/12/14/1.htm
14 Dec 2011
Applications now being accepted for bundled payment initiative
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is currently soliciting applications for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/31/6.htm
31 Aug 2011
Bundled fee system can work
A reader responds to our cover story on bundled payments.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/lte.htm
15 Mar 2010
A bundle of joy or trouble?
Bundled payments could prove the value of hospitalists or destroy their income, dramatically improve patient care or hurt outcomes, or be a return to capitation or a new way forward.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/bundle.htm
15 Dec 2009
Letter from the Editor
With health care reform in the news, bundled payments have been getting a lot of attention. Under this plan, payers would pay a lump sum per hospital admission that hospitals and physicians would share, in contrast to the current system based on separate billing for relative value units. Bundled payments offer possible advantages, but there are possible pitfalls, too.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/lfe.htm
15 Dec 2009