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  Complimentary from the publishers of VBP News                                   August 2018  
       
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  "As healthcare transparency increases, AMCs [academic medical centers] performing poorly on analyzed measures of care may face lower patient volumes, a decrease in CMS revenues and commercial value-based payment models and less-favorable payer partnership opportunities.”
- Christopher Stanley MD, Director, Navigant Consulting Inc.

 
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  Medicare median wage and case mix index-adjusted cost per case was 5.8% higher at AMCs [academic medical centers] versus non-AMCs in 2017.

Excerpted from: VBP News, Volume 3 Issue 16, August Second Edition 2018, "Navigant: Academic Medical Centers Trail on Cost, Quality Metrics."
 
 
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Jeanna Palmer Gunville: 3 Strategies to manage risk in the value-based payment environment

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Source: Medical Economics, August 13, 2018
     
 
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