Bailit Health Purchasing

Bailit Health Purchasing is a consulting firm dedicated to ensuring insurer and provider performance accountability on behalf of public agencies and private purchasers. Bailit’s mission is to assist organizations achieve measurable improvements in quality and cost management for enrolled or covered ...

May 14,2015

An Engine for Collective Impact

providing all stakeholders with access to comprehensive, trusted data on health care cost and quality; ... consumer-friendly report cards that illustrated the variation in performance, quality, cost, and patient experience. ... costs. Aggregated data also improved measure validity and reliability. All together, these factors ...

May 14,2015

SCPA: Challenging Fragmented Care

account for only five percent of patients, but they accrue more than 60 percent of health care costs ... stays, resulting in costly health care, but not necessarily good-quality care. For example, one ... will decrease, and along with it, costs. AF4Q SCPA also aims to improve the quality of care and reduce ...

Oct 30,2013

“These are the people paying the bills and absorbing increase upon increase in health care costs. They ...

May 21,2012

August | 2013—Moving Beyond "Widgets"

that are so dominant in U.S. health care discourage the very improvements in quality and cost we so ... turn drives up the total cost of care.&nbsp;</p> <p>Fortunately, other payment ... encourage providers to manage costs while meeting standards of high-quality care. Because of the fixed ...

Aug 05,2013

Oregon’s Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions

address readmissions rates to improve health care quality while reducing costs. View the full Lesson ...

Feb 11,2013

From Memphis: Methodist North Hospital’s “30 Minute Guarantee”

attention and was lauded by the community for implementing this relatively low-cost program.  The guarantee ...

Aug 18,2011

Webinar: CMMI Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative

In the third phase of the program, Alliances in Aligning Forces for Quality are working to reform the current health care payment system into one that supports high quality, cost efficient, ... the current health care payment system into one that supports high quality, cost efficient, ...

Catalyst for Payment Reform — Health Plan RFI

policies that promote high- quality and cost-effective care. View Recording 

Reducing Avoidable Readmissions

in readmissions costs and quality of care. The RARE (Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively) ... estimated reduction of inpatient costs by more than $45 million (based on an estimated $10,500 per ...

Aug 07,2013