Orthopedic Reimbursement: What’s Your Competitive Advantage?
United offers employees cheaper hip, knee replacements if they travel to Chicago’s Rush “Chicago-based United…
Medicare Meets 2016 Goals… EARLY?
“In January 2015, HHS set big goals to move 30% of Medicare to value-based arrangements by the end of…
Feasibility Study of Collecting Orthopedic Patient-Reported Outcome Data in Clinic
We are pleased to see the release of the study validating the feasibility of collecting patient-reported outcome data…
Aligning Patient & Surgeon Expectations for Lumbar Spine to Improve Outcomes
This study “Concordance between Patients’ and Surgeons’ Expectations of Lumbar Spine Surgery” found that 87% of…
The Two Faces of Surgeon Scorecard: Part II
Earlier, in Part I was discussed the the shortcomings of the current surgeon scorecards available to patients. Even…
The Two Faces of Surgeon Scorecard: Part I
ProPublica’s Surgeon Scorecard is out there and available for patients to review before choosing a surgeon or…
Hospital System Leads Data-Driven Effort Providing Better Care for Lower Cost
Geisinger Health System has become the national poster child for providing better care at lower costs. The backbone of…
Investigators Awarded $144M in Grants to Develop Pediatric PRO Tools
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has funded the Validation of Pediatric Patient-Reported Outcomes in Chronic…
Bundled Payments in Spine? How Providers can Prepare.
Hospitals have successfully implemented bundled payments for hip and knee replacements, and they are now looking to…
How PROs are Helping Organizations Adapt to Patients as Payers
Traditionally, healthcare did not consider the patient perspective because of a payment system that required…
5 Ways Patient-Reported Outcomes Improve Your Organization
As healthcare shifts from quantity to quality, providers continue to look for more ways to evaluate value….
What’s Your Score, Star Rating, Wait time? 5 Ways Patients Are Finding Out
We already discussed the constantly increasing importance of the Internet marketing for surgical practices in 5 Trends…
5 Trends Putting the Squeeze on Surgical Practices
Many practices are very busy switching over to ICD-10 or completing various other Healthcare regulations/procedures…
Spine Surgeon’s Have Mixed Feelings About ProPublic’s Surgeon Scorecard
ProPublic released the ‘Surgeon Scorecard’ database as part of their ongoing ‘dollars to doctors’ feature to…
CMS Proposes Bundled Payments for Joint Replacements
Medicare spent more than $7 billion for hospitalizations alone last year on primary total hip and knee replacements….
Adequate Pre-Op Education Proves to Substantially Improve Surgical Outcomes
A gallup poll asked patients to rate their level of agreement with 3 statements related to important aspects of…