The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will break its own rules to test new models. New alternative payment models (APM) underperformed during CMMI's first decade. CMMI hopes that a ...

Health systems continue to grow in size. Financial integration—the ownership of hospitals or physician practices—often has anticompetitive effects that contribute to the higher prices for health care ...

This article is sponsored by Lumina Care. As skilled nursing providers adapt to increasingly complex patient needs, care models are shifting to emphasize ...

Geisinger’s Ask-a-Doc program, which enables direct asynchronous communication between primary and specialty care, was associated with lower healthcare utilization and cost, implying more efficient ...

A lack of time to engage with patients in the diagnostic process is a major concern of health care professionals. The major challenge is that these professionals are inundated with data; upwards of ...

Aiming to increase care access, the national Primary Care–Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) initiative of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) embedded specialists, care managers, or both in ...

Preventing Hospitalizations for Patients With Cancer: Emergency Room Observation Units or Early Prevention In their recent study, Yeh et al 1 add to the mounting evidence showing a myriad of benefits ...

It's been more than 20 years since a landmark Institute of Medicine study reported siloing behavioral and primary health leads to inferior care, yet walls between the two still remain. A Milliman ...

This month's Crain's Forum explores Michigan’s $3 billion public mental health system, which has many layers for those in need to navigate. Integrated care has been a topic in the health care ...

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In every American community — wealthy or poor, rural or urban, young or old — at least 1 in 5 people live with mental health disorders. And yet no American community has an adequate supply of mental ...