Suzanne Delbanco news and information

The proposed $3.9 billion tie-up between Community Health Systems and HMA highlights the rise of the hospital mega-system as a response to declining inpatient volumes and payment rates.
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The nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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The movement among employers to push insurers to adopt health plan benefit designs that improve medical outcomes without raising costs is slowly gathering steam, according to an employer coalition.
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Most states have limited laws or no laws at all to guarantee patient access to information on hospital and clinic prices, a newly released report says.
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The Measure Applications Partnership, a group of healthcare experts convened by the National Quality Forum to provide pre-rulemaking guidance to HHS, has released its second annual round of recommendations on quality measures for use in federal health programs.
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A new initiative from some of the nation's large employer groups just added another item to the 2014 to-do list for health plans and providers: Make healthcare price data available to employees and consumers.
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“We all know we need to be careful stewards of our healthcare dollars. But if we can't get at the price information, it's just not doable." It is a complaint and concern we hear frequently working with large employers and other healthcare purchasers, such as state public employee and retiree...
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The Society of General Internal Medicine has launched the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, a panel examining how physicians are paid and how financial incentives affect patient care.
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Providers and private payers have scant experience sharing financial risk for patient populations in accountable care models of healthcare delivery and payment, according to a survey of the landscape led by Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform.
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For most of us enmeshed in the day-to-day of healthcare provision and policy, it is easy to lose sight that we are heading into the maw of a leviathan called payment reform and that once spewed out, we'll likely be wading about a radically different payment system. You may remember me from my days...
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