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Reform Update: Proposals promote medical homes
By Andis Robeznieks | July 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Some day, primary-care physician organizations may hold celebrations marking July 2013 as a tipping point for them.
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Reform Update: AAFP criticized for participation on AMA's RUC
By Andis Robeznieks | July 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The American Academy of Family Physicians is catching some heat for its participation on the American Medical Association Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee, or RUC.
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'The right direction' | Primary-care docs see promise in CMS' proposed pay for non face-to-face work
By Andis Robeznieks | July 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
For hundreds of thousands of primary-care physicians across the country, the era of unreimbursed evaluation-and-management, or E&M, care may finally be coming to an end.
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NCQA seeks comment on medical-home recognition revisions
By Andis Robeznieks | June 20, 2013
The National Committee for Quality Assurance is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to its patient-centered medical home recognition program standards, which it says will better reflect healthcare trends such as the growing emphasis on outcome measures.
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Insurer calls for payer-provider collaboration to cut costs
By Beth Kutscher | June 18, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Costs are expected to rise after reform fully rolls out, and payers and providers need to transform their relationship.
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Reform Update: 'Physician champions' needed to increase payer, provider collaboration, execs say
By Jonathan Block | June 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
It's no surprise that collaboration between payers and providers will continue to increase as the launch of health insurance exchanges in October approaches. But sustaining that cooperation will require “physician champions” to work closely with payers and more simplified contracts...
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Reform Update: PCORI seeks the wisdom of crowds
By Maureen McKinney | June 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is trying to live up to the first two words in its name. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has been tapped by PCORI to scale up their prototype of a Web-based crowd-sourcing platform called WellSpringboard, which is...
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Medical home initiative reduces costs
By Melanie Evans | June 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
One of the insurance industry's medical home experiments has slowed costs and significantly lifted quality scores in its second year of operation, raising hopes for pilot programs initiated under the 2010 healthcare reform legislation.
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Commercial insurers less likely to offer ACOs 'upside-only' shared-savings arrangements
By Rachel Landen | June 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Commercial insurers participating in accountable care arrangements are less likely than Medicare to use payment models featuring the “upside-only” shared savings preferred by providers.
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Panel airs draft of new doc payment system
By Jessica Zigmond | May 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Republican House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have revealed a draft of a bill that would repeal Medicare's contentious physician payment formula and replace it with a payment system that places greater emphasis on quality and efficiency.
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