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10 core measures to evaluate patient-centered medical homes
The Commonwealth Fund identified a core set of standardized measures to evaluate the success of the patient-centered medical home, which looks at utilization and total costs per member per month, including high-risk patients.
Report: Pricing, technology to blame for high U.S. healthcare costs
High prices and technology costs are what are driving skyrocketing healthcare costs in the U.S., not high utilization rates, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. One major factor is
Technology key to population health management, ACO maturation
As healthcare shifts to model emphasizing more accountable care, technology will be an indispensable part of the equation, according to a report unveiled this week by the Institute for Health
48M people lack insurance, unaware of health law
Almost 25 percent of adults between 19 and 64 years old--or 48 million people--lacked health insurance last year, and almost 70 percent of those adults lacked health coverage for more than a year,
Insurers avert $2B medical-loss ratio provision
Insurers should thank their lucky stars that the reform law's medical-loss ratio (MLR) provision wasn't implemented in 2010. If it was in effect, they would have rebated almost $2 billion to
Specialty medical home expects millions in savings
The medical home model needn't be limited to primary care but can include specialty-focused medicine. For example, the concept already has been applied to oncology and succeeded in cutting costs,
Report: Premiums soar 50% nationwide for family coverage
A new Commonwealth Fund report finds that premiums for family coverage increased 50 percent from 2003 to 2010. The analysis essentially confirms a national trend of more premiums for fewer benefits
Today's healthcare hiring could be gone tomorrow
One thing that the healthcare industry has steadily supplied during these dolorous economic times are jobs. It is easily the fastest-growing sector in the United States during the worst economic
Study adds credence to physician practice quality tracking
While some contend that the benefits of tracking physicians' quality of care have thus far been "more accepted than studied," the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality, started by a group of
Reporting quality measurement works: Collaborative care improved
Confirming the beliefs of quality and transparency advocacy, measuring the quality of collaborative care arrangements and publicly reporting it does improve overall patient care, according to a study
