Good Health and Are Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) Important to ACO Success? Payment Arrangements Say Otherwise. Elvonda

Long ago, the Population Health Blog learned that when it comes to health insurance, capitation or bundled payments brakes , while fee-for s...

Good Health and Health Policy Insights from the Medical Home Summit: Wellness, ACOs. Elvonda

The Opening Ceremony of The Medical Home Summit The Population Health Blog is back home after attending the intellectually rewarding Populat...

Good Health and The End of Power Health Care?. Elvonda

Corporate titans enjoying the good old days. While Moses Naim's The End of Power devotes only a few pages to medicine, it's still p...

Good Health and Taking Routine Blood Pressures in the Physical Therapy Clinic. Elvonda

Physical therapists should be taking routine blood pressures in the physical therapy clinic. We have evidence that physical therapists don...

Good Health and Medicare ACOs Grow 38% in Six Months. Elvonda

Physical Therapists are keenly interested in the possibility of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). Private practice and corporat...

Good Health and 27 New Medicare Accountable Care Organizations Open April 1st, 2012. Elvonda

NEW AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE CARE, CONTROL MEDICARE COSTS, OFF TO A STRONG START OVER 1.1 MILLION BENEFICIARIES NOW SERVED BY...

Good Health and Value-based Healthcare Does NOT Reduce Medicare Spending. Elvonda

The blog of the Congressional Budget Office  (CBO) announced yesterday that 30 years of Medicare demonstration projects have failed to show ...