Operations
Combining will help MaineHealth "build a system of integrated care," notably including a common electronic medical records system.
Superintendent Maria Vullo wants guardrails to ensure promised synergies result in cost savings for consumers.
ACOs in upside-only models need more than two years and the shared savings rate put forward by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, lawmakers and stakeholders say.
The health reimbursement arrangements could be used to satisfy the employer mandate to offer coverage.
The collaboration is effective immediately and builds on the recently-revealed joint operating agreement between Advocate Health Care and NorthShore.
Deploying multiple interventions simultaneously within the EHR is shown to improve care while avoiding unnecessary costs.
States will have the ability to allow individuals to use ACA subsidies when buying short-term limited duration plans.
Both upstate and downstate, employment growth in the industry was stronger than in all other industries combined over the past 10 years.
Repeal would end the ACA's most popular provision, to cover those with preexisting conditions.
Savings opportunities are fairly equal across hospital size, location, and whether the facility is urban or rural, for-profit or not-for-profit, or system-based or standalone.