Team Based Care: PCP Offices Closing Quality Incentive Care Gaps
A health system with employed physician practices with a total community panel of 100,000 people was at risk for several million dollars... Read More
Team Based Care: The Pain Point that Motivated Change at the Primary Care and Ob/Gyn Sites within an Employed Medical Group
The Administrative Quality Team, comprised of 4 Registered Nurses, was responsible to roll out new quality initiatives to the practice sites, which... Read More
Team Based Care: A Collaborative Multi-functional Team
For many years, two local health systems, each with employed ambulatory physician networks, provided the majority of the healthcare services to a... Read More
Engaging Doctors in the Health Care Revolution
Despite wondrous advances in medicine and technology, health care regularly fails at the fundamental job of any business: to reliably deliver what... Read More
Top 10 things payers and providers can do today to start aligning with value-based reimbursement tomorrow
CMS says value-based reimbursement is now an imperative. What can you do to make the grade? The stakes have just been raised... Read More
The SGR Fix: What’s the Reality for Physicians?
In the midst of partisan rancor and Campaign 2016 positioning ‘strategy’, a moment of bipartisanship broke out last week in the U.S.... Read More
High Cost Health System
For many years, two local health systems provided healthcare services to a large self-insured employer’s health plan’s beneficiaries. One health system’s costs,... Read More
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy calls for shift to ‘prevention-based society’
Vivek Murthy, MD, who was sworn in as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States in a ceremony Wednesday, believes the... Read More
Team-Based Care: Optimizing Primary Care for Patients and Providers
What is team-based care? The definition of “team-based care” for all care settings that is most widely accepted and consistent with the... Read More
5 thoughts from Quint Studer: The value of pauses, decisiveness and proper timing
With nearly 30 years of healthcare experience, Quint Studer has established himself as a strong advocate for change and improvement and as... Read More