The MMS Perspective on Payment Reform
The state Payment Reform Commission voted last week to recommend that Massachusetts move from its largely fee-for-service payment system to a "global payments" model. What does the Massachusetts...
View ArticlePayment Reform: What Physicians Need
This post originally appeared on WBUR's guest blog "Commonhealth" on July 29, 2009. The state payment reform commission has a vision of a new payment system for Massachusetts – a global payments...
View ArticlePayment Reform Hearing Set for Thursday; MMS to Testify
The state legislature's Joint Committee on Health Care Financing meets Thursday afternoon to hear general testimony about the payment reform commission's recommendations on global payments. The MMS...
View ArticleAt the State House, MMS Leaders Urge Caution and Pilot Projects for Payment...
Massachusetts Medical Society physicians joined several health care providers Thursday in urging the State Legislature to move carefully in adopting a new payment model for physicians and hospitals....
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Health Care Reform in Spotlight as MMS Interim Meeting Opens
Waltham may not be Washington, but the conversations about how to overhaul health care were as impassioned here as in our nation’s capitol, as the MMS House of Delegates opened its 2009 Interim...
View ArticleGlobal Payments: How We Did It, and What Works (First of 3)
This video is the first in a series of three video by physician leaders in Massachusetts, who discuss how practices can succeed under a global payment system. Speaker: Barbara Spivak, MD,President,...
View ArticleGlobal Payments: How We Did It, and What Works (Second of 3)
This video is the second in a series of three videos by physician leaders in Massachusetts, who discuss how practices can succeed under a global payment system. Earlier this week, Barbara Spivak, MD,...
View ArticleGlobal Payments: How We Did It, and What Works (Third of 3)
This video is the last in a series of three videos by physician leaders in Massachusetts, who discuss how practices can succeed under a global payment system. Earlier this week, Barbara Spivak, and...
View ArticlePayment Reform: Not This Year
The push to payment reform for health providers has apparently stalled, at least for this year, according to a report in today’s Boston Globe, which described the main reason for the delay as...
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Comments On the State’s Road to Payment Reform
By Lynda Young, M.D. MMS President-Elect Early next month (Jan. 5), the ad hoc committee advising the state Health Care Quality and Cost Council about payment reform legislation is scheduled to meet...
View ArticleMass. Health Care Costs: Evidence, Testimony, and Scrutiny
“We’re not interested in just saving money, we’re also concerned about quality and access, but we need to do it in a way that we have the capacity to afford it,” said Stuart Altman, chairman of the...
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