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Improving Incentives Issue Briefs

Third Quarter, 2012

Study Finds Improved Focus on Population Management and Chronic Illness Cuts Inpatient Days and Emergency Room Visits

Second Quarter, 2012

Hospital Bed Supply and Hospitalizations: A Tale of Four Cities

First Quarter, 2012

Analysis of Medicare and Commercial Insurer-Paid Total Knee Replacement Reveals Opportunities for Cost Reduction

 

Improving Incentives Newsletter

January, 2012 - PDF Version
 

In this issue of Improving Incentives you will read about the launch of a new bundled payment initiative in Wisconsin, led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality effort in that state. Payers (yes, more than one) and providers (ditto) have contracted for knee replacement bundles and at least one case has been triggered. You’ll also read about a three-year pilot project covering several million people in Stockholm...

September, 2011
 

Our third-quarter newsletter comes out at an important time in the transformation of the U.S. health care system. A few weeks ago, CMS’ Innovation Center launched the boldest and broadest pilot program in the agency’s history. Hospitals, physicians, health plans, and coalitions around the country have a unique opportunity to prove that they are willing to walk the walk...

July, 2011 - PDF Version
 

In this issue, our partners write about their efforts in three case studies: how care redesign accompanies payment structure reform in North Carolina, a multistakeholder implementation in Colorado, and the lessons learned from implementing PROMETHEUS for five clinical conditions in Michigan....

April, 2011
 

Welcome to our inaugural issue of Improving Incentives. The intent of this publication is to periodically share lessons we’re learning from field implementations, in an effort to help others who are implementing payment reform programs.

 

Building Bridges

Newsletters of Heath Care Incentives Improvement Institute, Inc. from 2010 and earlier.

Third Quarter 2010

As we enter the final stretch of the year, we're excited about the work done to date and the work to be done. Click here for a summary of that work.

Second Quarter 2010

Late last year the Boards of Bridges To Excellence and PROMETHEUS Payment agreed to merge. As part of that merger, the new organization was named the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, or HCI3. And while the people haven't changed, the sum is certainly greater than the parts. Under HCI3 we now have a broad array of quality measurement tools - the Bridges To Excellence Recognitions - and cost measurement tools - the PROMETHEUS Payment Evidence-informed Case Rates. All these tools are available in our implementation sites and to our implementation partners, and we have already developed several creative ways in which they can be combined to significantly improve the current payment incentives in health care. Read more...

First Quarter 2010

In this issue you will find brief updates BTE programs and the PROMETHEUS Payment Model, as well as interesting things happening at pilots sites. Also information about a study grant awarded to HCI3 and the announcement of our new website. Read more...

In this issue:

  • CEO Corner
  • Health Plan Highlights
  • Prometheus Implementations
  • HCI3 Website

 

Fourth Quarter 2009

In this issue you will find brief updates about the BTE programs and the PROMETHEUS Payment Model, as well as interesting things happening at pilot sites, including our work to date to improve/deliver high quality care. Read more...

In this issue:

  • CEO Corner
  • Programs Update
  • Health Plan Highlight
  • Physician Performance Assessement Highlight
  • PROMETHEUS Implementation

 

Third Quarter 2009

Welcome to the third edition of Bridges to Excellence Building Bridges Newsletter. Read on to learn more about our continued efforts to improve the health care system and physician performance assessment.

In this issue:

  • Programs Update
  • Health Plan Highlight
  • Physician Performance Assessement Highlight 
  • PROMETHEUS Implementation Update

 

Second Quarter 2009

In this second quarterly issue of Building Bridges you will find brief updates on BTE's programs, including some important FAQs on the Prometheus Payment model. In addition, please note that we have a new report that describes our work with communities and EMR vendors across the country, and includes lessons for the Federal Government as it considers the criteria for meaningful use of EMRs. Health Affairs has also published a paper on the Prometheus Payment model, the first peer-reviewed paper on this important payment reform initiative. Read more...

In this issue:

  • Programs Update
  • BCBS TX Sponsors BTE Program
  • BTE & NextGen: Working to Automate Quatity Assessment
  • PROMETHEUS Around the Country

 

First Quarter 2009

We are pleased to share with you the first issue of the Building Bridges: Bridges to Excellence Newsletter. The first few months of 2009 have proved to be both exciting and challenging, with the remainder of the year appearing to promise more of the same. With all of this activity it can seem like a full time job to stay up to date on all of the information critical to purchasers and providers, let alone react. Our goal is to provide you as a BTE stakeholder with the information you need to help meet your health care challenges and create new opportunities. Read more...

In This Issue:

  • Accelerating Transformation
  • BTE Care Links Update - New programs to help engage physicians towards improving care and educating employees
  • Health Plan Highlight - Aetna in New Jersey and beyond
  • EMR-Based Quality Performance Assessment - BTE 2009 implementation update
  • PROMETHEUS Payment Inc. Pilot Update
  • Your Questions Answered 

 

PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter