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Still finding their way | Pioneer ACOs see modest savings in first year, with nearly one-third dropping out
By Melanie Evans | July 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The closely watched Medicare Pioneer accountable care program finished its first year with modest cost savings while losing nearly one-third of its participants.
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ACOs are worth the risk | Some Pioneers are proving higher-quality care can lead to lower costs
By Merrill Goozner | July 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The first-year results from Medicare's Pioneer ACO pilot project showed all 32 of the provider participants met their quality improvement-reporting goals, but only 13 reduced costs.
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Healthy gains | More physician specialties saw strong pay raises in past year, annual compensation survey shows
By Andis Robeznieks | July 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Neonatologists registered the biggest increase in pay among the 23 specialties tracked in the 20th annual Modern Healthcare Physician Compensation Survey.
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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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Postponing the reckoning | Employer-based coverage is falling—a fact overlooked in latest controversy
By Merrill Goozner | July 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The Obama administration's one-year delay in the employer mandate continues to generate confused and contradictory responses that ignore the collapse of the employer-based insurance system.
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Perils ahead | Employers cheer mandate's delay, but move leaves ACA open to new attacks
By Jonathan Block and Rich Daly | July 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Two days before Independence Day, the Obama administration launched a firecracker of an announcement: It would delay by a year the employer mandate set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
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Ethics of mental enhancement | Do adults taking ADHD medication have an unfair advantage?
By John D. Thomas | July 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
On a recent business trip, I grabbed a copy of the in-flight magazine and was surprised by a tease on the cover for an article inside: “ADHD in Adults.”
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Across the board | Affordable Care Act prompting hospital trustees to pay closer attention to policies on patient billing, collection and bad debt
By Melanie Evans | July 06, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Most hospitals will face new rules for how they collect money from patients under health reform, prompting some boards to reconsider how their facilities identify and help those who can't pay.
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Betting on change | Tenet deal with Vanguard shows it's primed to try ACO effort, new payment model
By Beth Kutscher | June 29, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Tenet's Vanguard deal is about three things: building size and scale; squeezing more revenue from Vanguard's hospital and ambulatory-care portfolio; and becoming a bigger player in managed care.
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End the medical arms race | Systems should put focus on best outcomes, not high-tech equipment
By Merrill Goozner | June 29, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The public's love affair with advanced medical technology shows no signs of abating. When it comes to deploying advanced technology, it's easy to convince the average American.
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