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Healthcare Triage News: Pay for Performance in Medicine: It Doesn’t Work
Healthcare Triage News: Pay for Performance in Medicine: It Doesn’t Work
“Pay-for-performance” is an umbrella term for initiatives aimed at improving the quality, efficiency, and overall value of health care. These arrangements provide financial incentives to hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers to carry out such improvements and achieve optimal outcomes for patients.
Two-midnight rule coming to an end; hospitals in line for one-time payment
Hospitals instead will receive a one-time payment of 0.6 percent next year to offset the 0.2 percent reduction implemented from 2014 through 2016.
Drug Regulation and Pricing — Can Regulators Influence Affordability?
Public debate in the 1990s over drugs’ clinical toxicity has given way to concerns about their financial toxicity. Although drug regulators aren’t supposed to be concerned with pricing, they’ve been drawn into an acrimonious debate over the cost of medicines.
Your vanishing health coverage: Employers are cutting retiree health benefits at a rapid rate
The shrinkage of employee retirement resources in the U.S. has been well documented, as employers shift more risk onto their workers. Less so is the rate at which employers have been eliminating healthcare benefits for retirees. As the Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported, retiree health coverage is becoming an endangered species.
Pay for performance worked this time, right? No?
Personalized medicine gaining ground in U.S., Europe, report finds
Personalized medicine is already having a measurable impact on patient outcomes and will play a strong role in healthcare facilities in the next two years, anew report stated.
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/precision-medicine-initiative-sets-privacy-principles/409461/
Performance measures put heat on hospitals
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/performance-measures-put-heat-on-hospitals/418477/
This year has seen a bevy of new programs and initiatives aimed at moving providers toward a value-based model of care.
HENRY KOTULA 