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PwC report on physician-hospital alignment
PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute recently released the second part of their series on physician-hospital alignment. This new part examines how physicians and hospitals can make alignment work for both sides. The findings come from a survey conducted with 1,000 physicians and hospital leaders on shared governance, compensation, and changing physician practice patterns.
 
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May 19, 2011
Study: Cost of establishing an ACO significant
The estimated start-up and first-year costs to establish and sustain the core competencies necessary to manage the care of a defined population through an accountable care organization are considerably higher – $11.6 to $26.1 million – than the $1.8 million estimate made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in its proposed rule, according to a new study prepared for the AHA by McManis Consulting.
 
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Save the date: PLF Summit in San Diego
David Nash, MD, MBA, Founding dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University, will be the featured speaker at the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit on achieving team-based health care delivery, taking place Tuesday, July 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in San Diego, CA.

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New report released on team-based competencies

A collaboration of six national health professions associations and three private foundations recently released a report titled, “Team-Based Competencies, Building a Shared Foundation for Education and Clinical Practice.” This report builds on an earlier report developed by the groups called, “Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice.”

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awards grants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, through its Aligning Forces for Quality initiative, has awarded grants of $1.3 million each to 16 communities across the country to help improve the quality and value of health care.
 
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AMGA voices concerns with new ACO rules
In a recent letter to Don Berwick, MD, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, Donald W. Fisher, PhD, president of the American Medical Group Association, outlined five concerns members of his association have with the new accountable care organization regulations.
 
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Rural health care networks to share in $12 million worth of grants
The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) will award up to 40 grants of $300,000 each over the next three years to help rural health care networks become meaningful users of electronic health records.
 
 
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