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July 6, 2017 | Health Leaders Media
Competition for physician talent remains fierce.
So healthcare organizations hoping to draw doctors to new practice opportunities must do so with a clear, distinctive message that addresses candidates' concerns, says Jamie Thomas, an...
June 29, 2017 | Health Leaders Media
Wellmont Health System, with seven hospitals and two medical groups serving a 23-county service area in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, has its work cut out in caring for one of the least-healthy populations in the United...
June 27, 2017 | PCPCC Press Release
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) advocates for high quality, affordable and patient-centered primary care for all. We evaluate proposed changes to healthcare legislation against these goals.
Several provisions...
June 27, 2017 | Health Leaders Media
Research-based evidence to help primary care physicians make decisions seems to be hard to come by, according to research from the University of Georgia. Researchers, led by Mark Ebell, epidemiology professor at UGA’s College of Public...
June 26, 2017 | Healthcare Dive
It certainly was a busy few days in Washington for the healthcare sector last week. The Senate revealed the discussion draft of their healthcare reform plan, hoping to come to a vote sometime this week. But in case you missed it, the CMS...
June 26, 2017 | Health IT Analytics
Federally qualified healthcare centers (FQHCs) that received technical and financial assistance from a CMS demonstration program were significantly more likely to become high-level patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) than peers who did...
June 26, 2017 | Health Leaders Media
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Monday said that 22 million people would lose health insurance coverage under the Senate plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would...
June 23, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Policymakers have touted the patient-centered medical home model as an opportunity to improve access to primary-care services while decreasing healthcare costs through the prevention of chronic diseases. But a new study shows the model has...
June 20, 2017 | CMS
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would make changes in the second year of the Quality Payment Program as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA...
June 19, 2017 | Health Affairs Blog
While participation in Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) continues to grow—9 million Medicare beneficiaries are currently attributed to Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs alone, up 1.3 million since 2016—controversy...
June 13, 2017 | Brookings
10 questions Americans are—and should be—asking about the House-Passed AHCA and its projected impact
On May 4th, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), complete with a series of amendments that represent compromises to gather enough votes. The majority of amendments centered around compromises to either...
June 5, 2017 | Health Leaders Media
The law of supply and demand is starting to acknowledge family physicians.
For the 11th straight year, family docs top the list of the most highly recruited physicians in the United States, but they also continue to find themselves on the...
June 2, 2017 | Health Leaders Media
Survey results from the 2017 HealthLeaders Media Value-Based Readiness: Setting the Right Pace survey reveal that the majority of respondents currently demonstrate a broad commitment to developing care delivery competencies to prepare for...
June 1, 2017 | Healthcare Dive
For the first time, physicians who have an ownership stake in their practice are in the minority in the U.S., the American Medical Association reports.
The share of practice owners dropped to 47.1% in 2016, down from 53.2% in 2012,...
May 26, 2017 | Congressional Budget Office
Demand for primary care is projected to rise slightly faster between 2013 and 2023 than in the previous decade. The paper outlines a number of ways—with and without federal intervention—in which supply might respond to rising demand....
May 26, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Since the CMS implemented the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act last fall, physicians have been concerned that their value-based payment options put too much financial risk on their practices.
The Merit-based Incentive Payment...
May 25, 2017 | Health Leaders Media
Providers are still in the early stages of the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care, according to the HealthLeaders Media survey, Value-Based Readiness: Setting the Right Pace.
Perhaps as a result, respondents are all over...
May 25, 2017 | NPR
Health care groups that represent doctors and patients are warning members of Congress that the House Republicans' plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act would hurt people who need insurance most.
The groups are responding to the latest...
May 24, 2017 | Modern Healthcare
Here's what the CBO reported on the cost and coverage impact of the House Republicans' bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.(All projections are in comparison to current law)
Reduce the cumulative federal deficit by $119...
May 18, 2017 | Healthcare Finance News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking primary care practices in four selected states to apply for a second round of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model taking place between 2018 to 2022.
CMS has selected four...
