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Despite Additional Dollars, Texas Doc Shortage Is Hard to Fix - Kaiser Health News - 0 views

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dollars texas doc shortage fix NURSES

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  • Wright and Blackwell said Texas should encourage more physicians to go into primary care in rural areas by expanding the loan repayment program, which offers some debt relief to doctors who do so.
  • Mal Allison on 23 Aug 13
     
    Wright and Blackwell said Texas should encourage more physicians to go into primary care in rural areas by expanding the loan repayment program, which offers some debt relief to doctors who do so.
Mal Allison

With Change Coming, Aetna Targets Employers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Mr. Mead cited a report by the Institute of Medicine that tallied more than $760 billion in health care “waste” created annually as a result of consumer fraud, unnecessary procedures and excessive administrative costs.
  • r. Mead said the campaign also stressed the need for health care providers to shift to a model known as “accountable care,” which shifts their reimbursement models for health care professionals from being paid for the volume of services they perform to being paid based on the outcomes of patient care. Accountable care systems are usually linked to technologies that help health care providers measure performance and manage patient data. Aetna has 27 accountable health care agreements with hospitals and other health care providers around the country.
  • Bertolini said in the video. “If we fix just 20 percent of it, we could pay for the Affordable Care Act. We could insure everyone without increasing taxes.”
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  • The fee-for-service model is broken,” Mr. Mead said. “The Affordable Care Act encourages the system to move to accountable care,” he added. “The challenge with that is that doctors and hospitals need technology and support to make that work.”
  • He noted how costs could vary widely depending on where a person lived and who their insurer was. “It shouldn’t vary that much,” Mr. Huckman said.
  • Mal Allison on 03 Sep 13
     
    Aetna, one of the largest of the companies, will introduce a new campaign on Tuesday aimed at those groups. It will highlight the company's goal of cutting billions of dollars of expenditures through so-called Big Data, electronic health records and other technologies as well as encouraging better coordination among health care providers. The campaign, called "Our Healthy," will run online, in print and on mobile devices through the end of 2013.
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