An eight-year initiative aimed at improving healthcare quality and lowering costs has entered its final phase, and its director says the project's lessons could serve as best practices for healthcare providers across the nation. FULL STORY »
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health researchers and the Commonwealth Fund are recommending a new Medicare option they say could reduce total health spending by $180 billion over 10 years. FULL STORY »
Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates 12 hospitals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center's network of affiliated hospitals. FULL STORY »
Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., and Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, will form an accountable care organization to serve patients in Brevard County, Fla. FULL STORY »
As the care delivery models of hospitals and health systems evolve, healthcare executives and managers predict a major shift in admissions from inpatient to outpatient settings. FULL STORY »
Medicare will tie financial incentives to quality performance this year for 32 accountable care organizations known as Pioneers, the CMS' first and most ambitious pilot of the new payment model. FULL STORY »
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