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  • THIS WEEK'S FEATURED STORY
    From April 10, 2012
    Bundled Payment eNewsletter #7

    Integrating Care through Bundled Payments -- Lessons from the Netherlands
    The Dutch are experimenting with bundled payments with organizations similar to ACOs called "care groups," as noted in this New England Journal of Medicine perspective piece. Care groups are now addressing quality and cost issues through bundling in diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and vascular risk management. (NEJM 364;11 nejm.990 org March 17, 2011)

    THIS WEEK'S FEATURED VIDEO
    From March 30, 2012
    Accountable Care eNewsletter #26

    Organizing for Risk

    Jeff Goldsmith, PhD
    President, Health Futures, Inc.; Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

    THIS WEEK'S FEATURED RESOURCE
    From March 22, 2012
    Medicaid eNewsletter #37

    Dollars Spent per Beneficiary

    In a February 23 blog in The Incidental Economist, Aaron Campbell shows why it will be hard and painful to cut Medicaid.

    Click above and see third chart ("Dollars spent per beneficiary")


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