Filed under: quality of care
Reform Of the Health Care System That Is Overdue
CBO Report Card: Poor Grades For Some Medicare Cost Cutting Efforts
The underlying premise of some of the 2010 health law’s most ambitious changes to Medicare is using financial incentives to get doctors and hospitals to improve the quality of care and lower costs. Both accountable care organizations and the Value-Based Purchasing Program aim to give bonuses to hospitals that achieve such goals.
Read the Article>Study examines how doctors and patients see health care
Doctors and patients agree on many of the key issues facing the future of health care, a study to be released today shows, but that's where much of the agreement ends.
Read the Article>HHS finalizes standards on health disparities
The Health and Human Services Department on Monday finalized new standards to track broad factors that affect people’s health.
Read the Article>Study: Few Hospitals Qualify for Digital Funds
Though hospitals are eligible for billions of dollars in federal stimulus money to bring their facilities into the digital age to save money and improve the quality of health care, just one in 10 is ready to meet government standards to qualify for the funds, a new analysis shows.
Read the Article>$6.8 Billion Spent Yearly On 12 Unnecessary Tests And Treatments
For many adults, a routine visit to a primary care physician might involve blood tests, a urinalysis, an electrocardiogram, maybe a bone density scan. Too often, however, these tests are inappropriate and they cost a bundle, according to a recent study, not only for the health care system but also for individuals, who are increasingly footing more of the bill for their care.
Read the Article>Texas has top medical centers but provides poor health care: True of false?
Medicare data show gap in hospital performance
Health law boosts care, lowers cost
