West Michigan: Doing Better for Emergency Department Frequent Fliers

20,000 total visits and an estimated $40 million to $50 million in costs. The Center's treatment ... have time to wait.” Cost savings have been significant as well. After treatment through the center in its first year, 75 out of 96 patients had lower health care costs. Average monthly charges for ...

Oct 30,2013

AF4Q Communities Reimagine Health Care

practices differently and use patient experience, clinical quality, and cost and resource use data to drive ...

Aug 15,2012

Caring for Health Care's Costliest Patients

of the nation’s health care costs; five percent account for 50 percent. Who are these patients? They ...

Jan 29,2014

Composite Measures: A New Gold Standard in Diabetes Care

increase, so, too, do associated direct and indirect costs. In 2007, diabetes cost $174 billion in the United States, both in terms of direct costs (such as hospitalizations, medical care, and treatment supplies) and indirect costs (such as disability payments and lost time from work). Increasing rates of ...

Feb 28,2014

Article/Commentary/Opinion For the past decade, the high-quality, relatively low-cost health care delivered in Grand Junction, Colorado, has led that community to outperform most others in the United States. Medicare patients in Grand ...

Nov 29,2011

CVE Collaborative Business Models to Leverage Sustainability and Impact: Working with All Payer Claims Databases

cost and quality of care.  And while the availability and resources of APCDs has been growing ... are being used to improve the cost and quality of care, and share tips on how to work with an APCD in ... improvement in the cost and quality of care.  And while the availability and resources of APCDs has been ...

Engaging Employers in Changing Health Care

managing overall costs. Together, these disparate groups are crafting ways to ensure that health care ...

Nov 18,2014

Primer/Brief AF4Q Alliances produce reports for consumers with comparative information on the quality of care. Some are also reporting variations in the costs of care and in “resource use”—the extent to which providers ...

Jan 20,2015

Implementation of CG-CAHPS

practices. The costs of this effort are covered by one or more external organization (e.g., a health plan, a ... CG-CAHPS core items into their current surveys. Costs can be built into existing survey ... model creates the potential for cost savings through economies of scale. The ...

May 14,2015

Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute

models by developing tools and resources to help communities implement quality, and cost improvement ...

May 14,2015