Free Webinar: Capitalizing on CMS’s Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative • Article • 10.06.11

When: Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 2:00 PM CDT

This initiative may offer hospitals an excellent opportunity to align with physicians, to improve the quality and efficiency of care, and to increase margins significantly. However, realizing the potential of CMS’s offering requires an understanding of a few key principles and the ability to effectively manage the risks associated with the program.

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Dr. Fry presents innovative surgical quality and efficiency measures to the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative • Article • 06.15.11

Dr. Fry delivered a presentation entitled “Innovation in the measurement of surgical quality and efficiency” on June 10th, 2011 to the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative in Detroit. He discussed the challenges associated with defining and capturing complications of surgical care that often occur because a) specific complications may have vastly different severities and b) many complications of care are not identified until patients are discharged from the hospital. Dr. Fry’s presentation focused on how these… More»

Dr. Fry guest speaker at 20th Annual Zimmerman Lectureship Symposium • Article • 05.23.11

Dr. Fry delivered a lecture entitled “Healthcare Payment Reform: Surgeons Should Lead the Way” for the Zimmerman Lectureship during the annual meeting held on May 19th, 2011. His presentation highlighted how health care costs have dramatically increased in the United States and why a change in payment methods is necessary. Dr. Fry discussed how surgical care, particularly elective surgical care, is one area of heath care that is easily amenable to changing payment methods. He… More»

Dr. Fry discusses healthcare payment reform at INOVA Medical Center • Article • 04.11.11

Dr. Fry gave a presentation entitled “Healthcare Payment Reform: Surgeons Should Lead the Way” for the Department of Surgery, INOVA Medical Center in Fairfax, VA for Grand Rounds on April 6th, 2011. He highlighted how health care costs have dramatically increased in the United States and why a change in payment methods is necessary. Dr. Fry discussed how surgical care, particularly elective surgical care, is one area of heath care that is easily amenable… More»

Dr. Pine to Lead Webinar on Practical Payment Reform, April 26th • Article • 04.03.11

Dr. Pine will lead a webinar entitled Practical Payment Reform: Creating coordinated care organizations that lower costs without compromising quality on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 from 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM ET. During this presentation, Dr. Pine will (1) outline the problems of our current healthcare payment structure, (2) the problems with the well-intended, but ultimately insufficient, remedies currently circulating, and (3) present a payment reform solution that realigns financial incentives to reward effective,… More»