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This Week's Insight And Analysis:
Updated: July 7, 2009

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Go To Value Of Hospital Care Can Vary 40 Percent Across Regions Of The Country
 
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2009

  • Taming Wide Variations In Spending Key To Health Reform Says Dartmouth Atlas Project
  • Satisfaction With Health Plans Lower Among Individual Purchasers, Says J.D. Power
  • Scope Of Care Coordination Daunting For Physicians Treating Medicare Patients
  • FTC Staff Okays Maryland “Clinical Integration” Program
  • Research Show That Physician P4P Programs Work With Appropriate Incentives: BTE
  • CIGNA To Launch Cost Of Care Estimator
  • CIGNA Study: Americans With CDHPs Reduce Medical Costs Without Cutting Care
  • New Kaiser Family Foundation Report Highlights Financial Squeeze On Cancer Patients
  • Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Issues 2009 Report On Quality Of Care
  • Adoption Of Personalized Medicine May Yield Significant ROI, According To Deloitte
  • Leapfrog Group Survey Finds Hospitals Fail To Meet Important Quality Standards
  • Michigan Blues Launch Nation’s Largest Program for Patient-Centered Medical Home
  • Tampa Bay Becomes First Community To Jump-Start America’s E-Health Revolution
  • Study Finds Over Half Of US Hospitals Utilize Hospitalists
  • Humana And Wisconsin Health Information Exchange Enter Into Collaborative Business Program
  • Medica P4P Program Rewards Providers More Than $3 Million
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield To Open ‘Highmark Direct’
  • Massachusetts Studies Reveal Importance Of Incentives In Healthcare IT Adoption
  • WellPoint Announces Collaborative Partnership To Expand Access
  • P4P For Medical Groups Stimulates Changes In Practice
  • Aetna To Expand Footprint In Dubai
  • Survey Shows P4P Now A Mature Strategy
  • First Rewards Paid To New Jersey Doctors Through Participation In BTE
  • National Quality Forum Convenes Movement To Transform Healthcare
  • Medicare Advantage Plans Increases Medicare Costs, Studies Report
  • WellPoint Introduces International Medical Tourism Pilot Program
  • Coordinated Care Programs For Medicare Beneficiaries Do Not Show Benefit
  • BCBSA Spearheads Initiative To Improve Healthcare Quality
  • P4P Program Reduces Emergency Room Congestion In British Columbia
  • UnitedHealthcare, IBM And Arizona Physicians To Launch Healthcare Initiative
  • New Strategy Would Insure Everyone And Slow Spending Growth Through 2020
  • HealthGrades To Provide Physician And Hospital Ratings On Yahoo!
  • Dramatic Gains In Upstate New York’s Generic Drug Prescribing Patterns
  • Despite Economic Woes, Physician Compensation Increases
  • Anthem Blue Cross And Blue Shield Introduces International Medical Tourism Pilot Program
  • Adoption Of Personalized Medicine May Yield Significant ROI According To Deloitte
  • BCBSA Survey Finds CDHP Consumers Are More Health And Cost Conscious
  • eHealth Initiative Recognizes Leading Organizations That Are Improving Healthcare IT
  • Bridges To Excellence Pays Massachusetts Doctors Bonuses
  • CMS Releases First Results Of Hospital Quality Reporting For Outpatient Services
  • Washington Medical Quality Measurably Improves, According To Premera Blue Cross
  • Success Of BCBSND Diabetes Control Pilot Program Leads To Statewide Launch
  • Survey Finds Numerous Problems Facing Primary Care Doctors
  • Employers Want Help From Health Insurers To Manage Benefits
  • New Study Of Physicians Using HIT In Hospitals
  • Access To Physicians Is Consumers’ Highest Priority When Choosing A Health Plan
  • CMS Selects Sites For Demonstration To Improve Quality
  • Cleveland Clinic Pilots Microsoft HealthVault
  • BCBSMA Signs First Groups To Alternative Quality Contract
  • AMA Works To Reverse Primary Care Physician Shortage
  • Survey Shows Steep Consumer Health Plan Learning Curve
  • ECG Management Consultants Inc. Releases Findings From Its Provider Surveys
  • States See Rising Enrollment In Medicaid As Economy Falters
  • HMSA Pays Physicians And Hospitals Nearly $21 Million In Quality Incentives
  • Health Of Medicare And Medicaid Recipients In Florida Improves
  • Massachusetts Doctors Receive BTE Bonuses
  • Aetna And Partners In Care Test New Approach To Healthcare Services
  • Aetna And North Shore-Long Island Jewish Enter Into Three P4P Agreements
  • Final 2009 Physician Payment Rule Implements New E-Prescribing Incentive Program
  • Twenty-One Hospitals Unite To Improve Quality And Patient Safety
  • Medical Group Practice Cost Increases Outpace Revenues
  • 79 Million U.S. Adults Have Medical Bill Problems Or Are Paying Off Medical Debt
  • Medicare Hospital P4P Program May Penalize Hospitals Caring For Large Numbers Of Poor
  • Medical Tourism A $2.1 Billion Business And Growing
  • Fee-For-Service Healthcare Payment System Not Effective, Experts Say
  • Kaiser Permanente Opens Eco-Friendly Pasadena Medical Office Building
  • BCBSMA To Require e-Prescribing To Qualify For Physician Incentive Programs
  • Minnesota Medical Groups Bridge Disparities Gap
  • Survey: 82 Percent Of Americans Think The Healthcare System Needs Major Overhaul
  • CSMS Issues Physician Workforce Survey Report
  • Henry Ford Partners With Chrysler To Open Onsite Healthcare Clinic And Pharmacy
  • HealthPartners Pays Performance Bonuses For Providers
  • Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Minnesota Offers No Co-Pay For Use Of Retail Clinics
  • Arkansas Hospitals Rewarded For Efforts To Improve Care
  • ICD-10 Mandate Hardship For Healthcare Providers Says Study
  • Bridges To Excellence Study Shows Participating Physicians Provide Better Quality Of Care
  • The Permanente Medical Group And Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group Agree To Affiliation
  • New Report: Investment In Disease Prevention Could Save America More Than $16 Billion

    • 2008
  • New AHRQ Study Finds Surgical Errors Cost Nearly $1.5 Billion Annually
  • Starting Salaries Linked To Primary Care Physician Shortage
  • Incentive Programs For EHR Adoption Growing
  • While HMO Premiums Remain High, Rate Of Increase To Decline In 2009
  • Anthem Blue Cross Of California Pays Out Over $75 Million In Physician Bonus Incentives
  • PrimeDoc Hospitalist Group Expands Into Specialty Hospital Care
  • Bravo Health Presents Bonus To Baltimore Medical System
  • Program Launched To Give Physicians Shared, Web Access To Patients’ Imaging Records
  • Survey Reveals Employers’ Spending On Incentives For Health Management Programs
  • Health Plans Ramp Up Hospital-Physician Price And Quality Transparency Tools
  • Colorado Business Group On Health Expands Bridges To Excellence Program
  • RWJF Announces $300-Million Commitment To Improve Quality of U.S. Healthcare
  • Kaiser Permanente And Microsoft Pilot Heath Data Transfers
  • Blue Shield Of California Awards $29.5 Million In P4P Bonuses In 2008
  • ValuSource And MGMA Launch Free Benchmarking Dashboards For Medical Practices
  • Report On Physician Perspectives Released
  • 2008 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety And Quality Award Recipients Revealed
  • BCBSMA Signs Agreement To Integrate With Google Health
  • Survey Reveals Top Qualities For Consumers Choosing A Doctor
  • New NCQA Program To Evaluate Wellness And Health Promotion
  • NQF Endorses National Consensus Standards
  • New Approach For Improving Depression Care Introduced At 10 Minnesota Clinics
  • Geisinger Study: Increasing Healthcare Value Improves Quality
  • Hospital Expenditures For Physician On-Call Pay Rates Increase
  • P4P Leads To Faster Emergency Department Care In Vancouver
  • Oncologists And BCBSM Team In National Effort To Improve Cancer Care
  • J.D. Power Ranks Health Plan Member Satisfaction By Region
  • Hospitals Buying Physician Practices And Employing The Doctors
  • CMS Proposes Clamp Down On Medicare Advantage And Part D Marketing Abuses
  • New Survey: 82 Percent Of Americans Think Healthcare System Needs Major Overhaul
  • 10 Prescription Drugs Accounted For More Than $1 Billion In Spending
  • Passport Health Plan Enhances P4P Program
  • NCQA Updates Physician And Hospital Quality Program
  • Arkansas Hospitals Rewarded For Efforts To Improve Care
  • Visits To Primary Care Physicians May Decrease Hospital Stays At End-of-Life
  • UnitedHealthcare Enrollment In CDHPs Tops 2.7 Million
  • Innovations Lacking In Provider Payment Reform For Chronic Disease Care
  • Higher Standard Treating Chronically Ill Could Save Medicare $50 Billion
  • Number Of Upper Midwest Clinics Providing Excellence In Treatment Increases
  • Family Healthcare Contributions Edge Closer To Full Month’s Salary, Says Aon Consulting
  • Foundation Awards $1.3 Million To Integrated Healthcare Association
  • Physician-Owned Hospitals Linked To Shifts In Care
  • Patient Lives Saved And $24.5 Million In Incentives Awarded
  • Specialty Physician Compensation Barely Keeps Up With Inflation, Says MGMA
  • Companies Are Getting More Involved In The Health Of Their Workforce
  • Physicians Use BioSignia Tool To Obtain P4P Certification
  • Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Issues 2008 Report On Quality Of Care
  • Aetna Pays Medical Providers The Fastest Among National Commercial Insurers
  • Consumer-Driven Health Plans Generate Modest Savings For Employers
  • Hudson Health Plan Receives Grant To Evaluate Physician P4P Incentives
  • BTE Study Assesses Clinical And Financial Impact Of Physician Quality Measures
  • Hospital Pay-For-Performance Incentives May Backfire Among Safety-Net Hospitals
  • CIGNA And Dartmouth-Hitchcock Launch “Patient-Centered Medical Home” Program
  • Most Doctors Support National Health Insurance, New Study Shows
  • Kaiser Permanente Completes Implementation Of Outpatient EHR For All Members
  • Wellmark Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Iowa Promotes Improved Health
  • Buyers Health Care Action Group Pilots New P4P Program For Depression
  • Enrollment In Consumer-Driven Plans Remains Low, Survey Shows
  • CMS Selects Cerner To Participate In Quality Reporting Initiative
  • Highmark Inc. Moves To Fund Physician Adoption Of Health Information Technology
  • New Payment Framework Proposed Under Joint Principles Of PCMH
  • BCBSM Physicians And Hospitals Work To Save Lives, Improve Care And Reduce Costs
  • Few Employers Addressing Workplace Stress, Watson Wyatt Surveys Find
  • MedStar Health And Rite Aid To Launch Health Clinics In Rite Aid Stores
  • National Healthcare Expenditures Projected To Double By 2017 To $4.3 Trillion
  • The Leapfrog Group Releases 2008 Hospital Survey
  • Blue Shield Of California Foundation Awards $13.1 Million To Improve Patient Safety
  • BCBSMA Captures Electronic Clinical Outcomes Results From Providers
  • Physicians Treating More Minority Patients Earn Less
  • National Business Coalition On Health Endorses Patient Charter
  • Staff Care Survey: 77 Percent Of Hospitals Report Using Physician ‘Temps’
  • Minnesota Healthcare Providers Join In Launch Of “Online Shopping Mall” For Healthcare
  • Specialty Healthcare Organizations Endorse Joint Principles Of PCMH
  • Chrysler Goes Holistic To Revolutionize Back Pain Care In The Workplace
  • AHRQ Finds Modest Healthcare Quality Gains Outpaced By Spending
  • Highmark Study Shows ROI For Employee Wellness Program
  • First Health Plans Receive Bridges To Excellence Endorsement And Certification
  • Family Medicine Surges In 2008
  • Anthem Blue Cross And Blue Shield Improves Safety In Colorado Hospitals
  • HIT Slow To Develop In Practices
  • Medicaid Managed Care Plans Place More Burden On Patients And Families
  • National Survey Queries Ambulatory Surgery Centers On Electronic Documentation
  • Aetna Research Identifies Four Keys To Success For CDHPs
  • HealthSpring’s Pay-For-Quality Pilot Results Show Increased Prevention, Healthier Members
  • AHRQ Releases Consumer Financial Incentives Guide For Employers
  • New Patient Safety Proposed Regulation Aims To Improve Healthcare Quality
  • Part-Time Practice Trends Intensify Physician Shortage, Finds AMGA And Cejka Search
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