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Health-care's top executive salaries increase with complexity of system
The Coloradoan
Health care consultants say that's the price hospitals and health systems must pay to attract and retain top talent during turbulent times for the industry. Critics counter that salaries should be viewed through the lens of the 1.5 million uninsured ...


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Posted on May 17, 2012 (2 days ago)

Integrated Healthcare Association Hosts the Second Bundled Payment Summit with ...
MarketWatch (press release)
OAKLAND, Calif., May 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) is convening the Second National Bundled Payment Summit -- a two-day conference of health care leaders in Washington, DC, June 12-13, 2012, which provides an ...

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Posted on May 3, 2012 (16 days ago)

Physicians News Digest

Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Healthcare: Purpose, Politics and Pitfalls
Physicians News Digest
For years, performance in medicine was determined by a patient's outcome. Today, the performance measures of value-based purchasing (VBP) and pay-for-performance (P4P) programs have reprioritized healthcare causing many to speculate whether these ...


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Posted on May 4, 2012 (15 days ago)

Panelists: pay-for-performance will change health care
Westfair Online
... which present a framework for ultimately replacing the fee-for-service system with a pay-for-performance arrangement. This shift represents one of the most significant changes to affect health care providers since the law was enacted, ...

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Posted on May 17, 2012 (2 days ago)

Healthcare Business News IT top financial priority at not-for-profit hospitals ...
ModernHealthcare.com
The survey found that not-for-profit hospitals ranked spending on IT as their top priority—as a way to manage costs, increase quality of care and adapt to new reimbursement methods like bundling and pay-for-performance.
Survey: Health IT Spending A High Priority At Not-For-Profit HospitalsKaiser Health News

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Posted today (17 hours ago)

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Health insurer cuts deal with care provider [Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)]
Insurance News Net (press release)
1, 2014 , expands the current 35-month contract between the two organizations that rewards HPH's hospitals and physicians under HMSA's pay-for-performance reimbursement model. HPH comprises four hospitals - Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children ...
HMSA, four hospitals, in groundbreaking agreementHawaii News Now

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Posted on May 16, 2012 (3 days ago)

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In new pact, Olentangy teachers get raises, pay more for health care
Columbus Dispatch
For example: The state intends to grade charter-school sponsors with letter-grades based on school performance. Teacher retesting would become optional. School districts would be allowed to notify teachers or administrators that they don't plan to ...

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Posted on May 17, 2012 (2 days ago)

Medicare Reform Gone Astray
National Review Online (blog)
The original idea was simple: take the existing system of a 1- to 5-star rating system and transform it into a “pay-for-performance” system that would generate higher rewards for better health care. Reasonable idea. The actual implementation is ...

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Posted today (6 hours ago)

Health care system up for genocide in Kashmir
Kashmir Watch
Why civil societies and civilians have forgotten to demand accountability from the heavily paid administration and government about these deaths? Why administration and government has been literally sleeping? And why media, despite being the vanguard ...


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Posted on May 17, 2012 (2 days ago)

Fitch Rates McLaren Health Care (MI) Series 2012A Bonds 'AA-'; Outlook Stable
MarketWatch (press release)
Bond proceeds will be used to refund McLaren's series 1998A bonds and the series 1998, 2003 and 2006 bonds issued on behalf of Northern Michigan Regional Hospital, refinance draws on certain lines of credit, refinance a mortgage and pay costs of ...

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