Value-based care: Will the industry ever be ready to ditch fee-for-service?

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/value-based-care-will-industry-ever-be-ready-ditch-fee-service/2015-10-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

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Three years into value-based purchasing, hospitals have little to show for it

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/three-years-value-based-purchasing-hospitals-have-little-show-it/2015-10-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

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Shift from fee-for-service to value-based models slower than expected

http://www.fiercehealthfinance.com/story/shift-fee-service-value-based-models-slower-expected/2015-09-30

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PwC’s Health Research Institute reports finds challenges remain for hospitals, systems but shift is inevitable

PBM vs. PBA: The pros and cons

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/pbm-vs-pba-pros-and-cons

Moving Beyond Price-Per-Dose In The Pharmaceutical Industry

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/09/30/moving-beyond-price-per-dose-in-the-pharmaceutical-industry/

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Understanding Health Care’s Short-Termism Problem

https://hbr.org/2015/09/understanding-health-cares-short-termism-problem?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+%28HBR.org%29

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Hospital innovation centers think outside the box to solve healthcare’s biggest problems

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/hospital-innovation-centers-think-outside-the-box-to-solve-healthcare-s-biggest-problems.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202015-09-18%20Healthcare%20Dive&utm_term=Healthcare%20Dive

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Clinics, tech, physician practices acquisitions to outpace hospital deals, Accenture report says

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/clinics-tech-physician-practices-acquisitions-outpace-hospital-deals-accenture-report-says?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRouv67AZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ITMdgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D

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Accenture forecasts that only 8 percent of deals between 2015 and 2018 will be hospital related, while 84 percent will be for non-acute providers.

Old-School Health Plans Fading Away

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=HEP&content_id=316548##

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A longtime standard-bearer of medical underwriting calls it quits and puts itself on the block. Its fatal flaw? Being out of sync with post-PPACA market realities.