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Integrating primary care and behavioral health not only makes sense for patients, it reduces healthcare costs, but it has to go both ways - behavioral health into primary care and primary care into behavioral health - to be most effective, said Kathleen Reynolds, project director, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration-Health Resources and Services Administration, Center for Integrated Health Solutions.
WellPoint and UnitedHealthcare are among private payers that have been testing new models to improve patient outcomes and lower costs, even before the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released rules around new payment and care delivery approaches.
With the new final rules issued Thursday by CMS for accountable care organizations (ACO), the healthcare industry is working to understand the changes, which appear at first glance to make the qualifying parameters more achievable.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday released the final regulations for accountable care organizations (ACOs), which contain major revisions from the draft regulations released earlier this year.
CMS issued the final rules for accountable care organizations (ACO) on Thursday and, in so doing, sparked excitement throughout healthcare with what initially appears to be a more achievable set of qualifying parameters. But it will take some time for the healthcare industry to absorb and understand the changes.
As Joseph Kvedar, MD, director of Partners Healthcare's Center for Connected Health, looked out upon a crowded ballroom at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel Thursday afternoon, he was reminded of a concept hatched roughly two decades ago.
As patient-centered medical homes become a larger part of the healthcare system, it’s important that all the participants be trained on how to work in teams, said Larry Mauksch, M.Ed., during the Maine Primary Care Association’s annual conference held this week.
Based on conversations with hospital CEOs, healthcare consulting firm Huron Healthcare ranks the top 5 issues keeping healthcare leaders up at night.
Providers offer options for the Supercommittee to cut Medicare costs by making better coverage decisions and discouraging routine unnecessary services.
Four common infections seen in healthcare facilities declined in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.