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Keeping Risk in Check
Trustee Articles
The complexities inherent in performance-based contracts call for increased board oversight
Primary Care Docs Say Metrics Hurt Patient Care
Half of the nation’s primary care physicians say the increased use of quality-of-care metrics to assess provider performance is having a negative impact on patient care, according to a survey repor
A New Framework for Working with Patient and Family Advisers
Boards have a keen interest in quality, and they are helping their hospitals and systems to implement a variety of improvement strategies.
The key to new payment programs? Data management.
Value-based payment approaches, including Medicare’s Quality Payment Program for physicians and other eligible clinicians, tie fees and bonuses to how well providers perform on various qualit
Put Equity at the Heart of Care
Health care is a fundamental right — a civil right and a human right. Statistically, however, underserved patient populations, often minority groups, receive the worst care nationwide.
Performance-based Contracting: Emerging Issues and Considerations
Trustee Articles
A new business model is emerging to transform the care delivery and payment systems. The transition is underway in many communities — moving health care delivery from emphasizing sick care to addressing population health management.
CMS Announces Savings in First Year of Home Care Demonstration
Participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Independence at Home demonstration saved more than $25 million in the payment model’s first performance year while delivering h
OhioHealth boosts hospice care
Hospice care has been shown to improve patients’ quality of life while reducing costs near death, but hospice services are chronically underused.