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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

Pay For Performance: Are Hospitals Becoming More Efficient in Improving Their Patient Experience?

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When I joined AMS nearly 2 years ago, I was finishing my doctoral research that examined the impact of CMS’ Pay for Performance (P4P) system on the relationship between hospital costs and the patient experience. This P4P system provides a financial reward or penalty for hospitals that will reach as high as 2% of Medicare   Read More

AHA Trustee Magazine “Two Paths to Savings” includes Gainsharing and Shared Savings

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In the March 2015 edition of the American Hospital Association’s Trustee magazine, AMS VP Anthony Stanowski and I authored “Two Paths to Savings”.  The article reviews the relationship between shared savings programs (ACOs, Bundled Payment Programs, and Patient Centered Medical Homes) and gainsharing programs.  Four basic questions that trustees and hospital executives wrestle are examined:
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Lessons Learned from a Hospital-Physician Gainsharing Program

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This month, hfm Magazine explores “Lessons Learned from a Hospital-Physician Gainsharing Program, examining the experiences of the New Jersey Hospital Association, the Greater New York Hospital Association, and their member hospitals. NJHA’s SVP Sean Hopkins, AMS VP Anthony Stanowski, and I discuss the leadership lessons learned using the 8-step process for leading change advanced in the seminal 1996 book, Leading Change by Dr. John Kotter, Emeritus Professor of Harvard Business School.

By documenting the key lessons learned from the associations that administered gainsharing programs and the hospitals that implemented them, we hope that this article provides guidance to health care providers not just in implementing gainsharing programs, but also as they undergo the change management process for other forms of alternative payment systems.

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Quality Metrics: 7 Guidelines For Deciding What to Measure

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So your organization is implementing a gainsharing strategy and you have been selected to oversee the program.    Gainsharing can be a stand-alone program or be an integral part of other initiatives, such as ACOs and Bundled Payments.  Identifying the common elements to all these initiatives is critical – especially if you Read More