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Health Care Exchanges: New Recommendations for States
Hospital Value-Based-Purchasing Program: Measure ReliabilityThe Affordable Care Act of 2010 mandates that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implement an inpatient hospital value-based-purchasing (HVBP) program. This pay-for-performance program will link Medicare payment to performance quality of acute care hospitals paid under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System.
National Medical Home Summit—Philadelphia, PA—February 27-29, 2012 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services QualityNet Conference—Learn. Act. Improve. Spread: Accelerating Large-Scale Improvement in Health Care Quality—Baltimore, MD—December 13, 2011 Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America Preconference Workshop—Boston, MA—November 18, 2011 Association of Health Care Journalists—Implementing Health Reform in the States—Atlanta, GA—November 15, 2011 North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting—Banff, Alberta, Canada—November 12-16, 2011 American Heart Association Annual Tu Corazón Latino Summit—New York, New York—October 27, 2011 National Health Policy Forum—Washington, DC—October 21, 2011 Center for State Innovation Policy Directors Annual Meeting—Washington, DC—October 13 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—Leading Through Innovation & Collaboration—Bethesda, MD—September 18-21, 2011 Annual Meeting of Care Continuum Alliance—Innovative Solutions for Wellness & Chronic Care—San Francisco, CA—September 7-9, 2011 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services National Medicaid/CHIP Quality Conference—Improving Care, Lowering Cost—Baltimore Inner Harbor, MD—August 23-24, 2011 Alliance for Health Reform—Managing Costs and Improving Care: Term-Based Care of the Chronically Ill—Washington, DC—August 11, 2011 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—Practice Facilitation Program for Primary Care Transformation—Webinar—February 2, 2012, 12:00-1:30 p.m. (EST). Click here to register. Click here for more information on Practice Facilitation. Medical Home Webinar—A Review of the Strength of Evidence re Patient-Centered Medical Home Effects—What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?—January 24, 2012 The Commonwealth Fund—The Innovation Center: Testing Reforms with Rigor and Speed—Webinar—November 30, 2011 Center on Health Care Effectiveness Forum/Webinar—Can Shared Decision Making Improve Health Care Delivery and Control Costs?—Washington, DC—September 21, 2011 Center on Health Care Effectiveness Forum/Webinar—Identifying Effective Health Care Services for Adults with Disabilities—Choosing Wisely: Why Study Designs and Outcome Measures Matter—Washington, DC—July 7, 2011 Health Economics Webinar—Health Care Delivery Evaluation and Demonstration Projects as Platforms for Economic Inquiry—May 25, 2011 |