Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare Health System is teaming up with the Boeing Company to offer a customized health plan for the aerospace company’s employees and dependents in Long Beach, South Bay and Orange County. The new option for Boeing employees will include benefits such as reduced paycheck deductions for healthcare coverage, no copayments for in-network primary care visits, complete coverage for generic prescriptions and the ability to choose in-network specialists without a referral, among others. Services will begin Jan. 1, 2017.
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Organizational Independence: Mission Impossible?
Adherence to a strict interpretation of the goal of independence can be a critical barrier to positioning the organization for a value-based environment.
Hospitals Off Track to Hit Value-Based Targets

Fewer than one in four hospitals are scheduled to hit the Obama Administration’s 2018 goal of providing at least half their care through value-based structures, research shows.
Not only are few hospitals scheduled to meet the 2018 value-based goal set by the Department of Health and Human Services, but only 3% meet that goal right now.
Further, only 23% expect to meet it even as late as 2019. The survey of 190 U.S. hospitals was conducted by Health Catalyst, a healthcare data and analytics company.












