Bundled Payments
Bundled care is touted frequently these days as one of the best ways in healthcare to save money, right reimbursement wrongs and heighten the quality of care. While the model is still being debated within the industry, a recent report indicates that consumers like it.
On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it had selected more than 500 healthcare organizations to participate in its Bundled Payment for Care Improvement initiative, a program to test how bundling payments for episodes of care can improve care coordination and lower overall Medicare expenditures.
As Vermont lawmakers start their annual budget-making process, the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) has 
In pursuit of integrated care delivery and more integrated business, two Atlanta health systems are forming the Georgia Health Collaborative and launching joint health plans.
McKesson on Monday announced that it will acquire Waltham, Mass.-based MedVentive, which develops risk management and population health technology.
Insurance companies are faced with myriad challenges in today's market, not the least of which is finding how they will both upgrade their IT infrastructure and organizational capabilities in order to effectively execute new payment models.
Letters sent last Friday to House Ways and Means Committee chairs Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Wally Herger (R-Calif.) from the American Medical Association (AMA) and Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) suggest a number of different payment approaches aimed at a long-term solution to the current Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR).
Fifty-seven percent of private health plan payers are hesitant to accelerate the adoption of bundled payments as a new reimbursement model and would be more likely to do so upon receiving an indication of positive feedback from physicians and hospitals, according to a recent poll from healthcare IT and research firm Gantry Group, LLC.
TriZetto Chief Medical Officer Jeff Rideout recently spoke with Healthcare Payer News Editor Chris Anderson about how data will play a part in redesigning the healthcare landscape and the readiness of both payers and providers to collaborate on these changes.
Recent successes in creating payer-provider partnerships show some of the steps payers and providers can take in order to create effective collaborations.
Private payer AvMed Health Plans, has recently begun working with a health system and an array of physicians in South Florida to develop a payer-provider collaboration based on a patient-centered medical home model.
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