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		<title>Mayo Clinic wants more work on payment reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic supports the Senate health reform bill but seeks more action on how care is paid For, as per today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.
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		<title>Things to watch in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physicians and patients both may benefit from the launch of a new database that informs the rates that health plans will pay for out-of-network services.
The successor to the Ingenix database is expected to emerge in mid-year.
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		<title>AHA&#8217;s vision of the future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Hospital Association is examining how health care payment reform can actually happen. In an interview on the Health Affairs blog, AHA CEO Rich Umbdenstock says fee-for-service must go away in favor of some type of fixed payment.
A draft report has been prepared by a task force on payment reform:
And basically it doesn’t argue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step 1, coverage; step 2, payment reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is frustrating for many people to watch health reform debate sidestep address cost containment in a meaningful way, but big changes are often best accomplished in incremental steps.
In a post on Commonhealth, Richard Lord, president and CEO of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, laments that Congress has not learned an obvious lesson from his state&#8217;s [...]]]></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>Medicare governance must change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current issue of Health Affairs addresses an important precursor to health care payment reform: the need to change Medicare governance so that the nation&#8217;s largest health care payer can make changes without undue political influence.
The article, &#8220;Medicare Governance and Provider Payment Policy,&#8221; written by Hoangmai Pham and Paul Ginsburg from the Center for Studying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another voice for prospective payment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Crosson, a top executive in the Kaiser Permanente system and the vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, is an important advocate for the accountable care organization model of health care delivery.
Writing in the Oct. 1 New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Crosson reiterates his call for a &#8220;stepwise&#8221; approach to increase the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cortese: Move to pay-for-value incrementally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking at the National Press Club last week, Mayo Clinic CEO Denis Cortese listed several attributes of organizations that deliver  what he considers to be &#8220;high-value care.&#8221; The Health Affairs blog recounts his message:

patient-centric cultures
high levels of physician engagement in leadership and change
high levels of teamwork, collaboration, and coordinated care
more “connectivity” and sharing of electronic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardiology leader Q&amp;A on payment reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. John C. Lewin, chief executive of the American College of Cardiology, shares his view of health care payment reform in this Q&#38;A in a blog post on The New York Times website.
A snippet of encouragement from Dr. Lewin:
The good news — and the reason why I’m excited about health care reform — is  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out Center for Payment Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone interested in health care payment reform should become acquainted with the Center for Payment Reform.
Its policy papers include Promoting Appropriate Payments for the Value Provided by Primary Care and Care Coordination:
Payment reforms must recognize the value provided by primary care in managing the health of individuals and populations. We will not create a delivery [...]]]></description>
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