From the category archives:

Payment Reform

Overview: Proposed Federal Rules for Increased Medicaid Payment for Primary Care Providers

On Wednesday, May 9, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed language for implementing the Medicaid primary care rate increase under [...]

Read the full article →

HHS Issues Proposed Guidance on Medicaid Pay Bump for Primary Care Services

The Department of Health and Human Services has released a proposed rule outlining the approach it intends to take in implementing a temporary Medicaid physician [...]

Read the full article →

Are Accountable Care Organizations a Fad, or the Future? New National Council Resource Helps You Find Out

On October 20, 2011, the federal government announced final rules providing guidance on how Accountable Care Organizations should be structured. These final rules could create [...]

Read the full article →

CMS Announces New Coordinated Primary Care Initiative

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Wednesday the launch of a new initiative to support comprehensive primary care and improve the coordination [...]

Read the full article →

Back to School Healthcare Reform Webinar Series

It’s September 2011. If you want to ace those Healthcare Reform SATs for admission to new payment and delivery systems by 2014, you must start [...]

Read the full article →

Dr. Karen Davis on “Smarter Ways to Pay for Healthcare”

As the ongoing debate over reducing federal spending has shown us, health care spending will be a target of efforts to cut the federal deficit, [...]

Read the full article →

Community Care Organizations (ACOs for the Rest of Us)

With all the recent talk going on about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), how do safety net organizations fit in? Dale Jarvis of Dale Jarvis and [...]

Read the full article →

The Impact of Health Care Delivery Reforms on Patients and Providers

The Affordable Care Act fosters the implementation of innovative healthcare delivery models, with the overall goal of improving patient care and achieving better value in [...]

Read the full article →

Accountable Care Organizations Explained

A new resource from Kaiser Health News provides answers to commonly asked questions about Accountable Care Organizations. Created as part of health reform, the ACO [...]

Read the full article →