Posts Tagged ‘AHRQ’
Coordinating Patient Care Incentives
Medical Home is a reimbursable approach to managing patient care, and CMS has financially supported the approach with steady physican payment increases. First studied as a tool for managing patients with chronic illness, it has transitioned to inpatient care with the intent of lowering costs and reducing readmissions. Read More »
Value-Based Purchasing Comes to Healthcare
Although value and quality may be an old cliché that always turns up in car ads, for a patient paying the bill, shouldnt they have the same mindset for a new knee or hip that costs as much as a car? Starting Oct. 1, 2012, CMS will institute the national hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) program as mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Its amazing how some hospitals really get the connection that technology can have a large impact on value and patients outcomes. Read More »
A New, Unbiased Data Source on Technology
Providers will no longer have to search through stacks of PubMed papers just to access clinical trials that end up being funded by the vendors. Now, under the direction of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), patients, payers, and physicians will have access to unbiased evidence-based research. For a taste, the 100 initial topics that will be the first priority are already available. Read More »