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Premier names Anderson COO of informatics, technology services

By Rachel Landen | June 24, 2013 | Basic Web

Leigh Anderson has been named COO of informatics and technology services at Premier healthcare alliance in Charlotte, N.C. In his newly created role, he will oversee Premier's quality and safety improvement, population health management, and cost reduction applications.
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Prescription for change | Annual ranking of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare spotlights leaders who are implementing their own brands of reform, innovation

By Andis Robeznieks | April 20, 2013 | Print Magazine

As Oregon's governor, Dr. John Kitzhaber brought Democrats and Republicans together to reform his state's Medicaid program, and he brought doctors and lawyers together to advance tort reform.
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More cliffs ahead | Providers brace for additional budgetary and regulatory challenges emanating from Washington

By Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond | January 12, 2013 | Print Magazine

This year was anticipated as the final dash toward the 2014 rollout of the healthcare reform law's major provisions. But the healthcare industry is also coming to the realization that 2013 will probably be remembered for more fiscal fights and deep federal cuts.
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New ventures for Dignity | GPO, partnership aim to ease supply cost bite

By Jaimy Lee | October 13, 2012 | Print Magazine

Dignity Health has formed a group purchasing organization and a for-profit joint venture with UnitedHealthcare that aims to address the costs of physician preference items, often among a hospital's most expensive needs.
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Supply-side economics | Purchasing practices at hospitals and health systems continue to evolve, with the supply chain continuing to be a target for large non-labor cost savings

By Jaimy Lee | August 18, 2012 | Print Magazine

Reducing supply costs, whether it's low-cost commodity items such as gloves or high-cost implantables, is a high priority for executives at hospitals of all sizes across the country.
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Devicemakers push back | Proposed limits on adding tax to prices stir debate

By Jaimy Lee | May 12, 2012 | Print Magazine

Hospital groups and GPOs are pushing the IRS to prohibit device manufacturers from shifting the cost of the industry's excise tax to the price of their products.
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P4P strategies not helping all hospitals: study

By Ashok Selvam | April 10, 2012 | Basic Web

The pay-for-performance program run in conjunction with Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier and the CMS once again faces scrutiny as a new study says lower-performing hospitals enrolled in the initiative are seeing little in terms...
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‘Complete nonsense' | Participants defend pay-for-performance project

By Maureen McKinney | March 31, 2012 | Print Magazine

Leaders and participants in a six-year pay-for-performance demonstration, which served as the blueprint for the government's forthcoming value-based purchasing program, are stepping forward to defend the initiative after a study said it failed to reduce patient deaths.
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P4P project yields no long-term gains on mortality: study

By Maureen McKinney | March 28, 2012 | Basic Web

A large-scale pay-for-performance initiative, run jointly by the CMS and Charlotte, N.C.-based Premier, has led to no long-term improvements in mortality, according to a new study.
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Can a GPO deliver? | Ascension backs plan as others study own strategies

By Jaimy Lee | March 24, 2012 | Print Magazine

Forming a group purchasing organization may reduce supply costs for Ascension Health and the GPO's membership, but the decision is not likely to lead to a new crop of hospital-owned GPOs.
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