Managing costs and care: Medicare bundled pricing CABG demo is catching on fast
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Medicare has initiated a highly successful demonstration for cost-saving on expensive coronary artery bypass operations. Under Medicare's system, hospitals and physicians receive a single, negotiated fee for each such operation and must split the payment among themselves. Since 1991, Medicare has saved more than $13 million in negotiated discounts on 2,552 heart operations performed under the program. In addition, hospitals have also made money because there was so much waste in the system. Billing difficulties accounted for the single biggest obstacle facing participants in the project.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1993
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No breathing room
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Managed-care pressures, including the performance of fewer surgeries, have brought the long-running battle between nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists to a head. The conflict, ultimately over jobs, turns on which group should provide various types of services. Minnesota nurse anesthetists whose hospital replaced them with contract anesthesiologists have filed suit in a federal court. That case is discussed.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1995
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Effects of changing Medicaid fees on physician participation and enrollee access
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The impact of Medicaid physician fees on physician services in Michigan and Maine hospitals is discussed. Additional information on Medicaid reimbursement changes and health services offered to Medicaid patients in Maine and Michigan is also included.
Publication Name: Inquiry
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0046-9580
Year: 1999
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