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This week’s guest post comes from Dean Farley PhD, Vice President at OptumInsight. An advocate for collaboration across all constituencies for better patient care, here he explains how payers and providers can make bundled payments a reality.
The idea of implementing bundled payments can be intimidating for any hospital CFO. But, as a way of paying providers that combines all the services needed to treat a patient, bundled payments are an inevitable step for both payers and providers as the industry heads toward accountable care.
This week, Bill Miller – OptumInsight EVP responsible for provider strategy and solutions – explains why Sustainable Health Communities are both possible and probable in the years ahead as guest blogger for Healthcare-Exchange.
The buzzword du jour in healthcare is “Accountable Care Organizations”, or ACOs. The cynics among us might ask “Weren’t we calling these ‘medical homes’ just a few short months ago?” Those with long memories in addition to that dose of cynicism hark back twenty years and say these are just capitated HMOs.
The term is hardly what’s most important as the healthcare system evolves in response to healthcare reform, ARRA meaningful use, spending cuts, increasing regulation and a myriad of other influences, many of which are beyond the control of the hospital community. What matters is the outcome, the building and operation of what we at Ingenix refer to as Sustainable Health Communities.
