Industry Insights

An interesting article in the New England Journal of Medicine by former CMS administrator Gail Wilensky describes some of the complications that participating providers encountered in the Physician Group Practice demonstration project.  These included lack of data provided in a timely manner, which impeded the ability of the participants to effectively manage their populations.  The article relates the results of this demonstration project to the structure proposed by CMS for accoun

We liked our old website, but it had one major shortcoming - it couldn't accommodate the "Articles and White Papers" and the "Blog" on the same site.  So we redesigned the site using better technology, which allowed us to bring both resources together into one place.  Hopefully this will facilitate its usefulness to users who want to keep up to date with current healthcare analytics topics.

We’ve had a chance to study the CMS bundled payment initiative application that was released several weeks ago, and our opinions on its advantages haven’t changed from our original postings on this topic. Participants are offered significant amounts of flexibility in designing a package that will benefit their specific circumstances, and select MS-DRGs and tailor gainsharing programs with more flexibility than in previous bundled payment demonstrations. Hospitals can participate in this program and an ACO, as was clarified in this application.