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Hope for Primary Care … from a Payer? A White Paper on the Collaborative Payer Model

by Tom Doerr, MD and Randy Bak, MD, JD
What if the health care payer were re-imagined as a service to the primary care doctor – supplying the tools, information and funding primary care physicians needed to meet the call to reform health delivery?
The structure of physician payment is considered one of the most problematic aspects [...]

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Spider Webs of Care Coordination Networks

We have learned that coordinating care of patients — particular care of Medicare patients — is complex and time consuming for physicians.
A breakthrough study quantifies just how complex and challenging care coordination really is.  The study is reported in the February 17 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine and is entitled Primary Care Physicians’ Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients: [...]

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Megatrend Spotting: Collaborative Care Management Networks

“Why can’t we all just get along?”  Rodney King

The Megatrend: Collaborative Care Management Networks (CCMNs)
It’s been quite a while since I spotted a new Disease Management Megatrend, but here’s one that’s long overdue:
Collaborative Care Management Networks will be necessary to achieve optimal care coordination.
The trend in a nutshell:  payers (and others) are recognizing that optimal care [...]

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