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Health Care Delivery and Payment Reform - A Primer on the Better Care, Lower Cost Act of 2014
on 09/09/2014
As written in the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal, March 2014 Issue
By, J. Ryan Williams, Partner, Health Care Practice Group
Health care providers have experienced significant changes in recent years. From patients who are in medical homes to value-based purchasing to accountable care organizations (ACOs), these programs and the changes involved appear to always focus on the goals of promoting and improving quality and controlling and reducing costs. For many reasons, critics often claim that these goals are difficult to achieve in any one program. All too often the discussion defaults back to costs and the no-win decision of either reducing benefits to patients or paying providers less.
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By, J. Ryan Williams, Partner, Health Care Practice Group
Health care providers have experienced significant changes in recent years. From patients who are in medical homes to value-based purchasing to accountable care organizations (ACOs), these programs and the changes involved appear to always focus on the goals of promoting and improving quality and controlling and reducing costs. For many reasons, critics often claim that these goals are difficult to achieve in any one program. All too often the discussion defaults back to costs and the no-win decision of either reducing benefits to patients or paying providers less.
Click here to read the rest of the article.