http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/2/166.full
Achieving the triple aim of health reform—better health, improved patient experience, and more affordable costs—is dependent on a foundation of high-performing primary care.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
How Solid Is The Primary Care Foundation Of The Medical Home?
In Annual Baseline Budget Projections, CBO Decreases Marketplace Enrollment Estimates (Update)
Why Is Design Thinking Healthcare Consumerism’s Most Important Factor?
Cartoon – Post-Op Prep
Obamacare Is on the Back Burner in Election
HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR COMMUNITY?
8 Things Providers Don’t Know About Debt Collection and Cell Phones
Now that the FCC has clarified rules for contacting patients about payments, hospitals and health systems are risking multi-million dollar settlements by failing to take the law seriously.
Another Study Links Hospital Mergers to Higher Prices
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/another-study-links-hospital-mergers-higher-prices#
Researchers find that “cross-market mergers in the same state result in price increases of roughly 6% to 10%, while those linking hospitals to out-of-state providers do not result in statistically meaningful changes in price.
Cartoon – Storytelling
HENRY KOTULA 