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March 2016 Presentations to Focus on Gainsharing’s Links to Performance Improvement

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This March we will see gainsharing take center stage at two regional HFMA meetings, as well as presenting a poster at ACHE Congress.  The events demonstrate the power of aligning the incentives of physicians and hospitals to drive physician engagement necessary to succeed under value based payment systems.  The educational sessions will present case studies that show how organizations use gainsharing to not just reduce internal costs, but to improve quality.

On March 22, at HFMA Central Pennsylvania Chapter 10th Annual Hospital and Physician Collaborative at the Lancaster Convention Center in Lancaster, PA, I’ll be co-presenting with April Venable, Director of Population Health at Inspira Health Network (Vineland, NJ).  Inspira needed to engage their physicians as they prepared Read More

Autumn 2015 Gainsharing Presentations Reflect Industry Interest

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In autumn, the normally frenetic activity of hospitals and health systems accelerates into high gear. Autumn is also marked by major conferences as executive teams “harvest” for new ideas. That’s appropriate as autumn used to be known as “harvest” before the dawn of the Industrial Revolution when the population moved to cities!

Gainsharing was prominently featured on the conference circuit this year.  With 5 states in various stages of implementation of the AMS Performance Based Incentive System, there is much interest in the success of gainsharing.  We presented at regional, national, and international conferences, and university programs in healthcare management.  Needless to say. I’m very proud that our organization is changing healthcare by lowering costs while improving quality and outcomes.  It’s gratifying to see this interest.

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Modern Healthcare report on the squeeze in hospital operating margins (June 23, 2014)

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Operating margin is the easiest way to determine a company’s pricing strategy and operating efficiency.   It is the simplest way to understand how much a company makes on each dollar of sales.  For non-profit hospitals, a positive operating margin means that there is money available to fund additional services; with
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The Revolution Continues

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The AMS Performance Based Incentive System® has now received 3 approvals by Medicare for use in large scale gainsharing demonstrations.  But the roots of our methodology date back to 1976, to the New Jersey demonstration that designed, developed and implemented “payment by the case”.  A recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine lauded payment by DRG as “…arguably the most influential innovation in the history of health care financing”.  In this blog we fill in missing pieces, including the fact that the
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Welcome to Our Blog

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We are very excited about the blog for our company, AMS!   As you can tell from our website, our focus is on hospital gainsharing programs, and we will try to cover that topic thoroughly.   We have learned over the years that for a gainsharing program to be successful it must be integrated with other activities at the
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