Skip to main content

Home/ ACA for MandM/ Group items tagged resources

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Mal Allison

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

www.nytimes.com/...g-aetna-targets-employers.html

Aetna ACO ACA patient data

shared by Mal Allison on 03 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • 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.”
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • 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.
Mal Allison

Walgreens Becomes 1st Retail Chain To Diagnose, Treat Chronic Conditions - Kaiser Healt... - 0 views

www.kaiserhealthnews.org/...ens-primary-care-services.aspx

Walgreens retail chain chronic conditions

shared by Mal Allison on 12 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • xpanding services to diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions that affect millions of Americans is a logical step, because the clinics can not only grow their own business, but also partner with hospitals and doctors’ groups to gain new customers, said Ronald L. Hammerle, president of Health Resources, a Florida consulting firm.
Mal Allison

PwC's Health Research Institute projects historic slowdown in healthcare spending growt... - 0 views

www.pwc.com/...ojects-historic-slowdown.jhtml

Healthcare spending slowdown 2014 consumers

shared by Mal Allison on 09 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Consumers, meanwhile, who are paying a greater share of the cost, are making spending adjustments.  Many are delaying care, using fewer services and choosing less expensive options such as retail clinics, urgent care centers and mobile health devices.
  • “Healthcare cost increases continue to exceed overall growth in wages, but the gap appears to be shrinking.  The long-term trends suggest that as the economy improves, the cycle of runaway cost increases will be broken,” said Michael Thompson, principal with PwC’s human resource services practice.  “This is critical as employers strategically reevaluate the role of healthcare benefits to their organizations and step up efforts to engage employees more directly in value-based healthcare decision making.”
Mal Allison

Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care - John Noseworthy - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

blogs.hbr.org/...tainable-model-for-health-care

health care Noseworthy Fragmentation

shared by Mal Allison on 15 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • But the ACA does little to address fragmentation, quality of care, and the sustainability of the financial model for U.S. health care — ho
  • At the foundation of our approach is a knowledge-management system — an electronic archive of Mayo Clinic-vetted knowledge containing evidence-based protocols, order sets, alerts and care process models
  • It is alarming to see more than a two-fold variation in health care quality across the country.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • One such resource is the work of Optum Labs, which we formed with Optum earlier this year. Optum Labs, an open R&D facility with a unique set of clinical and claims data, is being used to drive advances that will improve health care for patients and our country. We are now inviting others — providers, life science companies, research institutions, consumer organizations, and policy makers — to be part of Optum Labs. This opportunity to apply world-class analytical tools to both cost and quality will provide t
1 - 6 of 6
Showing 20▼ items per page