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June 20, 2011 | Program Result
In 2004, a group of regional collaboratives established the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) to accelerate the formation and effectiveness of such collaboratives across the country.
May 20, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Southern Maine studied the state's Pathways to Excellence system of reporting on health care quality. Practices that filed reports had higher scores on six indicators of health care quality than those that did not.
January 14, 2009 | Report
This primer provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the problems with current health care payment systems and describes alternative payment systems that will address these problems.
September 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study proposes two methods of payment reform that could facilitate higher quality and lower cost "episode-of-care payment" and "comprehensive care payment" (condition-adjusted capitation).
January 1, 2010 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, author Michael H. Brown offers an in-depth examination of a single program, the National Health Care Purchasing Institute.
September 23, 2009 | Story
The result is the U.S. pays far more for health care than any other nation and is on a path of unsustainable spending growth.
November 1, 2006 | Program Result
The National Association of Manufacturers surveyed member companies on their health care purchasing practices and prepared a report describing the findings and recommending seven steps to address rising health care costs.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
Between April 1995 and September 1996, the Economic and Social Research Institute, Washington, examined the design, implementation, and outcomes of new purchasing strategies in six business coalitions across the country — a sample of the most innovative and advanced purchasing groups in the United States.