Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

Health care organizations are in varying stages of clinical and financial integration as they pur...

Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...