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Minimum Medical Loss Ratios: How Health Plans Should Prepare for the January Compliance Requirements
Minimum Medical Loss Ratios: How Health Plans Should Prepare for the January Compliance Requirements
What constitutes healthcare quality improvement? CMS's definition of medical costs will likely coalesce around five key ... Read more
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Reducing Avoidable Emergency Room Visits: Approaches to Redirect Patients to Cost-Effective Care Settings
Reducing Avoidable Emergency Room Visits: Approaches to Redirect Patients to Cost-Effective Care Settings
Three key factors influence consumers' use of the hospital emergency room today, according to Dr. Barsam Kasravi, managi... Read more
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Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation: How Data Sharing Improves Physician and Business Performance
Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation: How Data Sharing Improves Physician and Business Performance
In another excerpt from a conversation with Metcare of Florida chief executives on its continuing medical home pilot wit... Read more
25 Aug 2010
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Health Coaching Strategies at Duke University Medical Center
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Kerry Little, senior health coach with Duke University Medical Center, shares what strategies Duke uses for its health c... Read more
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The Emerging Role of Nurse Practitioners in Expanding Access, Enhancing Revenue
The Emerging Role of Nurse Practitioners in Expanding Access, Enhancing Revenue
Nurse practitioners constitute a workforce already grounded in patient-centered care, explains Linda Lindeke, Ph.D., an ... Read more
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Analyzing CMS's Medicare Shared Savings Final Rule: Implementation Advice for ACOs
Analyzing CMS's Medicare Shared Savings Final Rule: Implementation Advice for ACOs
To avoid missing other opportunities inherent in the ACO model, payors and providers shouldn't get hung up waiting for C... Read more
28 Mar 2011
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Patient Registries: A Cornerstone in Creating and Delivering Accountable Care
Patient Registries: A Cornerstone in Creating and Delivering Accountable Care
Whether extracted from an EHR or compiled with a spreadsheet program, there's nothing magical about a registry, explains... Read more
11 Apr 2011
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Motivational Interviewing by Ochsner Health Coaches Drives Results in 4 Key Areas
Motivational Interviewing by Ochsner Health Coaches Drives Results in 4 Key Areas
When health coaches employ motivational interviewing during patient encounters, expect upticks in medication adherence, ... Read more
13 Jun 2013
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Managing Population Health with Integrated Registries and Effective Patient Touchpoints
Managing Population Health with Integrated Registries and Effective Patient Touchpoints
A patient might expect a reminder about a missed colonoscopy during a primary care visit, but during a trip to the derma... Read more
31 Jul 2013
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Performance Quality Measurement and Reporting for Accountable Care
Performance Quality Measurement and Reporting for Accountable Care
When tracked within its electronic medical record, key interventions like transitional care coaching and an expanded Pat... Read more
19 Jul 2013
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Managing Risk in Population Health Management
Managing Risk in Population Health Management
Adventist Health's successful use of incentives to engage employees in population health sets a high bar for the program... Read more
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Aligning Value-Based Reimbursement with Physician Practice Transformation
Aligning Value-Based Reimbursement with Physician Practice Transformation
In its quest to transform 70 to 80 percent of its physician practices to a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) over the... Read more
18 Dec 2013
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Healthcare Trends and Forecasts in 2014: 7 Payor Strategies That Will Reshape Primary Care
Healthcare Trends and Forecasts in 2014: 7 Payor Strategies That Will Reshape Primary Care
From partnering with non-traditional providers like retail clinics to targeting larger physician practices to achieve sa... Read more
18 Dec 2013
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Home Visits: Assessing Complex Patients Post-Discharge To Reduce Readmissions
Home Visits: Assessing Complex Patients Post-Discharge To Reduce Readmissions
Modifying a popular hospital admissions risk assessment tool for its own use helps Stanford Coordinated Care to prioriti... Read more
18 Dec 2013
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Improving Population Health with Embedded Case Managers in an Open, Multi-Payor Community
Improving Population Health with Embedded Case Managers in an Open, Multi-Payor Community
There's education, there's experience, and then there's the 'right stuff' --- the indefinable personality traits that ea... Read more
18 Dec 2013
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Medical Home Neighborhoods: Uplinking Specialists To Create Integrated Systems of Care
Medical Home Neighborhoods: Uplinking Specialists To Create Integrated Systems of Care
If payment inequities can be addressed, communication and technology tools in place in large physician multispecialty gr... Read more
18 Dec 2013
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Health Coaching's Value in Accountable Care and Medical Homes
Health Coaching's Value in Accountable Care and Medical Homes
Primary care and the patient-centered medical home offer a great opportunity for health coaches to become allies with pa... Read more
12 Jun 2013
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Medicare Pioneer ACO: Case Study on Atrius Health's Focus on the Triple Aim
Medicare Pioneer ACO: Case Study on Atrius Health's Focus on the Triple Aim
A core desire to create a single population-focused model of care for all Medicare beneficiaries, rather than multiple p... Read more
31 May 2013
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Healthcare Social Business Strategy: Driving Adoption with Social, Mobile and Cloud Technologies
Healthcare Social Business Strategy: Driving Adoption with Social, Mobile and Cloud Technologies
There are two key mistakes healthcare companies make when adopting social or mobile technologies, explains Andrew Dixon,... Read more
25 Apr 2013
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A Strategic, Best Practice Approach to Improve CMS Star Quality Ratings
A Strategic, Best Practice Approach to Improve CMS Star Quality Ratings
Low scores on patient outcomes measures within the CMS Star Quality ratings program --- metrics CMS weights most heavily... Read more
11 Apr 2013
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