Posted on December 13th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
By Lynda Young, M.D. MMS President-Elect Early next month (Jan. 5), the ad hoc committee advising the state Health Care Quality and Cost Council about payment reform legislation is scheduled to meet again, perhaps for the final time. We expect that the committee will use the meeting to finalize its recommendations to the full Quality [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2010 by Rick Gulla
The push to payment reform for health providers has apparently stalled, at least for this year, according to a report in today’s Boston Globe, which described the main reason for the delay as “disagreements among key officials, legislators, and providers over how best to control health care spending.” Despite consensus among many that the current fee-for-service system contributes to [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
This video is the last in a series of three videos by physician leaders in Massachusetts, who discuss how practices can succeed under a global payment system. Earlier this week, Barbara Spivak, and Richard Lopez spoke about their practices’ experiences implementing and delivering care in a global payment framework. Today we hear from one of [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
This video is the second in a series of three videos by physician leaders in Massachusetts, who discuss how practices can succeed under a global payment system. Earlier this week, Barbara Spivak, MD, spoke about the experiences at the Mount Auburn Cambridge IPA. Today we hear from one of the pioneers in this area. Speaker: [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
This video is the first in a series of three video by physician leaders in Massachusetts, who discuss how practices can succeed under a global payment system. Speaker: Barbara Spivak, MD,President, Mount Auburn-Cambridge IPA, Cambridge Mass. The Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association, with nearly 500 physician members, began operating under a form of global [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Frank Fortin
Waltham may not be Washington, but the conversations about how to overhaul health care were as impassioned here as in our nation’s capitol, as the MMS House of Delegates opened its 2009 Interim Meeting. During his report to the House, Society President Mario Motta, M.D., called on physicians to stay engaged in all facets of [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Frank Fortin
Massachusetts Medical Society physicians joined several health care providers Thursday in urging the State Legislature to move carefully in adopting a new payment model for physicians and hospitals. MMS President Mario Motta, MD, said, “If we move too quickly and rattle the tree too abruptly, you’re going to have physicians fall out of their practice [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Frank Fortin
The state legislature's Joint Committee on Health Care Financing meets Thursday afternoon to hear general testimony about the payment reform commission's recommendations on global payments. The MMS will testify, along with many other specialty societies, hospital leaders and other health care stakeholders. There has been no legislation filed yet, so there are no specific proposals [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2009 by Frank Fortin
This post originally appeared on WBUR's guest blog "Commonhealth" on July 29, 2009. The state payment reform commission has a vision of a new payment system for Massachusetts – a global payments system. The commission’s report is an important contribution to the debate over health care reform for Massachusetts, and for the country, as we [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by Frank Fortin
The state Payment Reform Commission voted last week to recommend that Massachusetts move from its largely fee-for-service payment system to a "global payments" model. What does the Massachusetts Medical Society think about this? Preserving the status quo is not an option because, despite the miracles that happen every day, there are many things in health [...]
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