Modern Healthcare - 2021-03-08

• Redefining the care continuum
• Highmark Health partners with Verily subsidiary on chronic care issues
• MedPAC likely to recommend CMS simplify alternativ­e payment models
• Employers benefiting from bundled-payment programs
• Medicare spending plummeted for physician services in first half of 2020
• Pandemic raises concerns over impact of Medicare pay restructur­ing on SNFs
• Ascension, Intermount­ain, home care providers join forces to push for payment changes
• OU Health Physicians, Oklahoma Blues fail to reach new contract
• Aetna seeks court sanction of Mednax for allegedly destroying evidence
• Shareholde­r group accuses HCA of excessive ED admissions
• Yes, insurers are banking on Medicare Advantage in 2021. But that’s not all
• Insurers boost quality offerings to even out MLRs
• Hospital, insurer and employer groups agree on coverage principles
• The COVID-19 experience and its influence on post-pandemic health policy
• Finding efficienci­es in the OR using tech
• ‘We have to overcome the distrust in the medical community’
• Mistakes I’ve Made: Confession­s of a Healthcare Cybersecur­ity Expert
• Doctor appears in court video call while performing surgery

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