Alternative ways to pay for health care are gaining traction across the nation. Major players in the industry like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are moving away from the traditional, fee-for-service payment models and exploring innovative approaches to Read more…
What are bundled payments, and how do they help providers reduce waste and deliver better care? In the past decade, the health care system has started shifting away from volume-based payments (payments per visit regardless of the outcome), to a Read more…
Source: The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) Media Contact: Cari Frank 303.903.6007 cfrank@civhc.orgClaims Data Being Used for the First Time to Help Improve Population HealthDENVER – March 30, 2017 – In a four part series, the Center Read more…
A few months ago, I helped my daughter prepare to leave Colorado for a new journey in her life. We laughed and reminisced as she packed up the items we thought she’d need (and would fit in a small backpack), Read more…
This is not the end of Obamacare; it’s the beginning.In a surprising move, Paul Ryan pulled the American Health Care Act, the Republican ACA repeal and replace bill, last Friday. It had become clear that there was no movement to Read more…
Denver, Colo., March 20, 2017Media contact: Connor Holzkamp, 303.691.7842, Connor.Holzkamp@state.co.usSIM recruits practices to integrate behavioral, physical health and test APMsThere are less than two weeks left to apply for the Colorado State Innovation Model (SIM), a federal initiative that helps Read more…
Is Paul Ryan’s world view a place we want to live? We’re about to find out.In the current debate over the Affordable Care Act’s repeal and replacement, we are watching the collision of two world views. While partisans on both Read more…
Source: The Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) Media Contact: Cari Frank 303.903.6007, cfrank@civhc.org Colorado All Payer Claims Database 2016 Annual Report Now Available CO APCD helps Change Agents across Colorado address health care challenges DENVER – March Read more…
So, we’ve explained what an All Payer Claims Database is and all the exciting things that it can do; but, why on earth would Colorado want such a thing? How did the CO APCD come to be and what, exactly, Read more…
Why assuming we’re rational about health care may be a dangerous assumptionI am reading a wonderful book called The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, about the development of behavioral economics by two of its pioneers, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Read more…
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