Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
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The U. S. healthcare system can improve if it: Recognizes and rewards superior safety and overall value. Shares standard measures of performance.
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Between the president's focus on Social Security and the release of the latest Medicare Trustees report this spring, most of the media's attention has been focused on these two federal programs. But it is Medicaid that is presenting the more immediate challenge for both the current federal budget and the states.
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With increased payment-or, in some cases, even the ability to contract with a payer-likely to be tied to the achievement of quality measures, providers need to: work with physicians in developing associated care delivery protocols, establish compliance mechanisms that are acceptable to clinicians and meet appropriate regulatory and legal standards.