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Penguins are Jumping…Payment Reform is Leaping!
[callout]…(The) 2014 National Scorecard on Payment Reform tells us 40 percent of commercial sector payments to doctors and hospitals now flow through value-oriented payment methods, defined as payment methods designed to improve quality and reduce waste. This is a dramatic increase since 2013 when the figure was just 11 percent. Suzanne Delbanco, Executive Director of CPR, in the Health Affairs blog.[/callout]
I’ve written before about what economists call “The Penguin Problem” — No one moves unless everyone moves, so no one […]
The Practice of Medicine: from Marcus Welby to ???
by Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP and Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA
Physicians face great uncertainty. According to a survey conducted by The Physicians Foundation, the great majority of physicians (89%) believe the traditional model of independent private practice is either “on shaky ground” or “is a dinosaur soon to go extinct.”
In the face of this uncertainty, many physicians are jumping to a conclusion that “I have to sell my practice to the hospital.” In this post of our series on The […]
The 100 Year Shift? Introduction and Overview
by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP
Gazing at the horizon, we foresee the potential for a tectonic realignment among physicians, hospitals and payers. Here’s a quick visual representation:
This essay is the first of a seven part series. In this first post we will capsulize our vision of this potential 100 Year Shift, answer initial FAQs, and lay out the structure for the rest of the series.
The Lynchpin — Changing Economic Incentives
In the past, physicians and hospitals […]