Tag: accountable care organizations
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Stephanie Mayfield Gibson, former state health commissioner, assumes new role at KentuckyOne Health
Stephanie Mayfield Gibson Former state health commissioner Stephanie Mayfield Gibson has joined the leadership team of KentuckyOne Health to coordinate its population health initiatives, according to a KentuckyOne Health news release....
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Community health groups, with focus on prevention, fight to be part of new setup for lowering health costs, improving outcomes
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is forcing doctors and hospitals to collaborate on lowering health-care costs while improving health outcomes. Community health groups that focus on preventive care...
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Medicare starts to overhaul the way it pays providers, rewarding them for quality, penalizing them for shortcomings
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration on Monday set a timeline for historic changes in how it pays doctors, hospitals and other health providers under Medicare, shifting...
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What health reform changes to expect in 2012 — assuming the Supreme Court doesn’t strike down the entire law
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments later this month about the federal health care-reform law, and is expected to decide the law’s future this summer. While the...
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Several pieces of federal health reform law taking effect in 2012
At the beginning of the new year, family doctors started facing a 1 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement if they hadn’t nixed their paper-based prescription pads in favor of an...
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Kentucky has three accountable care organizations, a health-reform linchpin, but they remain to be identified
The “accountable care organization” is one of the hallmarks of the federal health-care reform law, with doctors and providers encouraged to team up to give coordinated care and be paid...
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Funds available for critical-access hospitals, rural health-care providers through new federal program
Critical-access hospitals, physician-owned organizations and rural health-care providers are now eligible for federal funds that will help them implement necessary infrastructure and information-technology systems, the U.S. Department of Health and...