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Leadership for Value-Based Care

Four areas of knowledge and skills must be mastered to make the move from fee for service.

Today's Provider-Sponsored Health Plans: What Boards Need to Know

Trustee Articles
With the recent rounds of health insurance company merger and acquisition activity, many hospital executives and their boards may be wondering if a provider-owned plan might make sense for them.

The Regulatory Burden on Hospitals and Health Systems

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Every day, health systems, hospitals and post-acute care (PAC) providers – such as longterm care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies – confront the daunting task of complying with a growing number of federal regulations.

Post-Merger Integration: The Board's Role Begins Before the Ink is Dry

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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are occurring throughout health care, with transactions happening among entities of all provider types and sizes.(According to the latest analysis by Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, 49 transactions were announced in the first half of 2015, up from 43 transactions in the first half of 2014.)

Telehealth: An Overview for Trustees

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Telehealth connects patients to vital health care services though videoconferencing, remote monitoring, electronic consults and wireless communications.

Chairman’s File podcast: Health care without an address

This weekend, I was pleased to participate in a robust, AHA-sponsored discussion as part of the Aspen Ideas: Health Festival on how hospitals and health systems are adapting to this new push beyond our traditional boundaries, and what this shift means for affordability, patient outcomes and the care experience.

Who Is Accountable for this Patient?

Trustee Magazine Articles
Payers in population health contracts are using claims data to identify the physician responsible for a patient’s health and spending. It’s an inexact science that can aggravate providers before empowering them.

Study: Advanced illness model offers lessons for new CMMI model

In a study published this week in Health Affairs, officials from the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health share lessons learned from their Advanced Illness Management model.

ACA Sparks Five Trends to Watch

Since the Affordable Care Act became law five years ago, it has led to major shifts in health care delivery and payment.