Payer+Provider in the News – September 2012

BOSTON– October 16, 2012: During August and September 2012, Payer+Provider Syndicate spent a lot of time thinking about Accountable Care Organizations, hospital mergers, and wellness initiatives. The transition to provider risk-bearing has caused hospitals to consider merging and to seek to better understand the drivers of their financial and medical performance. Dr. Adam Powell spoke with reporters to discuss Steward Health Care’s plan to buy Mercy Hospital and Prime Healthcare’s plan to buy Lower Bucks Hospital. The first article appeared within […]

Dr. Concannon recognized for his research on comparative effectiveness

BOSTON – April 24, 2012: The American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, recently released a review of the most important papers on health costs, cost-effectiveness, and resource utilization. The list featured one of Dr. Thomas Concannon’s papers, and cited two of them. The paper featured on the list, “Comparative effectiveness of ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction regionalization strategies,” compared several scenarios for increasing access to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Dr. Concannon and colleagues […]