payment model for services
The benefits of Medicaid transformation have focused on the issue from the cost/government perspective. What are the tangible net benefits to actual current Medicaid recipients? JLF’s Health Care policy analyst,…
JLF’s Jordan Roberts was recently quoted in a Leader’s Edge article on innovative models in health care. The article detailed the experimental health care models being tested in five states:…
I’m going to use this space today to discuss two healthcare reform initiatives. One was just recently announced and one has been a policy for several years. The former is…
Peter Levin explains in a Barron’s editorial commentary how physicians can help rein in health care costs. The American health-care system was built on physicians practicing independently or in small…
Today’s health care environment places primary care doctors in an uncomfortable position to act as more of a referral source and less of a caregiving source. According to a white…
The ongoing debate in the medical industry is whether fee for service (FFS) medical care leads to excessive health care spending. Hence the increasing shift from payments based on volume…
Becky Quick devotes her latest Fortune magazine column to sharing the results of a conversation with Mark Bertolini, “chairman, CEO, and president of insurance giant Aetna.” He has a simple…
Because the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates individuals and employers to purchase bloated health insurance plans, premiums will only continue to rise. Rising health premiums for all neither…
As you listen to all the rhetoric surrounding health-care reform, Fortune magazine’s Geoff Colvin offers some good advice that exposes three major myths associated with reform. First, rising health-care costs…