Category Archives: bundled payments

It Pays to Reduce Preventable Readmissions Now: A Discussion of Return on Investment

September 29, 2011 – 8:42 pm

Author: Eric Tate -  Director of Sales, Care Team Connect Care Team Connect helps you transform healthcare today by answering two questions: What’s the secret to sustaining viability during the transition required by healthcare reform? Where’s the ROI in reducing preventable readmissions now? Patients first – My grandmother called it the will to live. And [...]

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For Good or For Now: A Brief Discussion of the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown

August 29, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Author: Bill Brody There has been some buzz recently about the altogether-welcome-but slightly-surprising slowdown in Medicare Spending Growth. Peter Orszag mentioned it here yesterday, and referenced an earlier discussion of it by Maggie Mahar on her HealthBeat blog here. Ms. Mahar even goes so far as to say in her opening paragraph that this deceleration [...]

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Double Dip or Double Trouble or Somewhere in Between?

July 2, 2010 – 5:53 pm

We’ve talked a good amount about the impending Medicare payment penalties for hospitals that have 30-day readmission rates for CHF, heart attack and pneumonia worse than national averages.  Frankly, these imminent payment changes have caused a great deal of excitement about the CTC approach.  What we didn’t know and that we learned this week from [...]

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Money Ball, Subprime Mortgages and Health Care ?

June 4, 2010 – 7:47 pm

Before I was allowed to turn off of Nassau Street with my public policy degree in hand, Dean Slaughter stopped me and asked me just one more time, “So, what is the most important lesson you’ve learned here at Princeton?”  I promptly and dutifully responded with “that financial incentives shape people’s behavior.”  Then, I turned [...]

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