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- By Tory Wolff
Summary
In August and early September, several Ohio provider systems have picked sides in the competition between Catholic Health Partners and Cleveland Clinic
The recently announced Health Innovatio…
- By Tory Wolff
Last week, I argued that, if payers want to secure competitive advantage from improved provider care, they would need tighter, more exclusive alignments with these providers to “crowd out” the free ri…
- By Tory Wolff
A new study in JAMA (by McWilliams et al.) looks at the Medicare expenditures of patients seeing providers enrolled in the BCBS of Massachusetts version of the ACO (Alternative Quality Contract or “AQ…
- By Tory Wolff
Summary
Earlier this year, Catholic Health Partners, the largest provider in Ohio, signed two deals which put it on a competitive collision course with Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic has few optio…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
When it comes to employee benefits, employers need to be generous either to attract and retain talent or because it is "the right thing to do". The recession and jobless recovery has unquestionably re…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
In our last post we introduced two potential scenarios.
"Provider bastions" in which buyers of health care services select upfront the network that they will trust to deliver their care in a coordina…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
It seems like every day there’s some news outlining strategic actions that various players are taking or other developments with respect to health reform. Here’s a sample of recent news:
Employer ado…
- By Nikhil Bhojwani
In 2011 we commented that while the health reform law, the ACA, had several positive intended consequences, it also could spawn several perverse effects and side-effects.
Now in an attempt to ward off…
- By Tory Wolff
Answer: When they form an industry association!
Back in February, a group came together to form a national association for ACOs (NAACOS) to, according to the announcement press release, promote the …