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	<title>Health Care Payment Reform &#187; Health care quality</title>
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		<title>How payment policy influences patient safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in a web-first article in  Health Affairs, Dr. Robert Wachter,  professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, reviews the past decade of patient safety and gives it a B- score.
In updating a five-year review, Wachter examines the role of health care payment in promoting patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital chairmen live in Lake Wobegon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new payment system that would reward hospitals based on the quality of care they deliver would apparently shock hospital board leaders. According to a report on the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Health Blog, a new Health Affairs survey finds virtually all board chairmen believe their hospital is at least average:
Ninety-nine percent of hospital board chairmen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MA physicians say health reform has improved quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All eyes on Massachusetts, please! That state has already gone where the rest of the country is headed, so look there for lessons borne of experience.
The New England Journal of Medicine (online only) reports on a poll of Massachusetts physicians regarding their perspectives on the state&#8217;s 2006 health care reform legislation.  The main result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this patient safety?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Wachter&#8217;s post on incident reports about medical errors and near-misses would be a funny unintended-consequences story if the health care industry could afford to waste money and time on patient safety.
When I visit hospitals to talk about patient safety, they often show me their IR reporting trends. If the number of IRs has gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can hospitalists help save the system?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are hospitalists a part of the solution to the problems caused by America&#8217;s fragmented health care system? Bob Wachter thinks so, and I think he might be on to something.
Wachter, chief of the division of hospital medicine at University of California-San Francisco, says:
&#8230;since hospitals are the target of most robust quality reporting, pay-for-performance, and patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never-event policy revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare&#8217;s never-event policy was a good way of announcing CMS&#8217; intent to pay for value, but the more scrutiny it gets, the more difficult it is to believe this is the best way to proceed.
Check out Bob Wachter&#8217;s take on the matter.
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		<title>CDHP movement slow, steady</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the consumer-directed health plan was supposed to create a rational marketplace that would save America&#8217;s health care system?
The 2008 Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey conducted by the Employee Benefits Research Institute found that 3 percent of the population was enrolled in a CDHP in 2008, up from 2 percent in 2007 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What George Halvorson tells me about payment reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone agrees that payment reform is needed, but the enthusiasm for simply paying primary care physicians at a higher rate does not do much for George Halvorson, chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Here&#8217;s what he thinks:
To make payment reform really work, we need to focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Halvorson tells me about the perfect system</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I interviewed George C. Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, last week. Kaiser Permanente is the nation’s largest integrated health plan, serving more than 8.4 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia, so I am interested in what he considers the perfect health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I hear from Paul Ginsburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the chance to interview Dr. Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, as a preview to his presentation at the World Congress on Consumer Healthcare and Wellness in mid-September.
Dr. Ginsburg is an economist, nationally recognized for his work in health economics and health policy, especially healthcare market changes and [...]]]></description>
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