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Study: Doctors need help adjusting to value-based payment environments

Alternative and value-based payments may be the wave of the future in healthcare, but providers are unprepared to actually accept them, according to a new study.

ACA subsidies 'essential' to individual market, studies show

If the U.S. Supreme Court determines federal subsidies are illegal when it rules in the King v. Burwell case, it would dramatically increase costs and lower enrollment in the individual market, according to two separate studies.

Why regional bundled payment projects fizzle

What if you were prepared to hand out bundles of money, but there were no takers? That is apparently what happened in California as part of a pilot project to explore the use of bundled payments for...

Health system pilots see lackluster bundled payment results

Bundling payments to providers for certain episodes of care may not yield savings and efficiencies as easily as once thought, according to a new study of the Prometheus payment project by the RAND

Proposed resident work hour limitations could cost teaching hospitals $1.6B

Residents are the engine that drives teaching hospitals--so cutting down their work hours would be costly. Just how costly? Well, if teaching hospitals were required to follow Institute of Medicine

Proposed resident work hour limitations could cost teaching hospitals $1.6B

Residents are the engine that drives teaching hospitals--so cutting down their work hours would be costly. Just how costly? Well, if teaching hospitals were required to follow Institute of Medicine