Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Lloyd Resnick
One of a series of reports on the October 21 MMS forum, “Toward a Shared Vision of Payment Reform.” After rundowns on reforms in Pennsylvania, California, and Vermont, the spotlight at the October 21 payment reform conference turned to Massachusetts. The three afternoon presentations that described Bay State success stories all reiterated that payment reform [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2010 by Lloyd Resnick
One of a series of reports on the October 21 MMS forum, “Toward a Shared Vision of Payment Reform.” Massachusetts wasn’t the only New England state that passed health care reform in 2006. So did Vermont, as James Hester, Ph.D., explained to attendees of the October 21 payment reform conference. Hester is director of the [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Lloyd Resnick
One of a series of reports on the October 21 MMS forum, “Toward a Shared Vision of Payment Reform.” Physicians tend to be disgruntled with most of the data they get from insurance companies, partly because much of it is used to pigeonhole them into often-inaccurate efficiency-based performance categories. But at the recent MMS payment [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
One of a series of reports on the October 21 MMS forum, “Toward a Shared Vision of Payment Reform.” An expert on health care law told attendees at an MMS forum on payment reform that the legal parameters for accountable care organizations are in transition, and that will probably change over the years. Sara Rosenbaum, [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Lloyd Resnick
One of a series of reports on the October 21 MMS forum, “Toward a Shared Vision of Payment Reform.” Several audience members at the October 21 payment reform conference asked Howard Grant, M.D., chief medical officer at Pennsylvania’s Geisingner Health System, “Could we do what you do here in Massachusetts?” After revealing that he was [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2010 by Frank Fortin
One of a series of reports on the October 21 MMS forum, “Toward a Shared Vision of Payment Reform.” Governor Patrick’s point person for health care told attendees at the MMS payment reform program this week that that best role for government is to provide the right balance between regulation and flexibility, and to provide [...]
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