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    Charting a Path for Health Care Payment Reform: Recommendations for the Field

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    Outlines health policy experts' and stakeholders' suggestions for payment reform: identifying ways to improve quality and save costs, short- and long-term strategies, potential unintended consequences, technical assistance, and performance measurements

    Strategies for Reining In Medicare Spending Through Delivery System Reforms: Assessing the Evidence and Opportunities

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    Outlines promising measures to achieve savings in Medicare costs by reducing the need for hospitalization and readmission and by reducing disparities across physicians and geographic areas in care delivery, utilization, and expenditures

    State Strategies to Improve Quality and Efficiency: Making the Most of Opportunities in National Health Reform

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    Examines ten states' initiatives to address key components of quality and efficiency improvement, including data collection, aggregation, and standardization; public reporting; payment reform; consumer engagement; and provider engagement

    Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance

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    Analyzes the fragmentation of the healthcare delivery system and makes policy recommendations -- including payment reform, regulatory changes, and infrastructure -- for creating mechanisms to coordinate care across providers and settings

    Sentara Healthcare: A Case Study Series on Disruptive Innovation Within Integrated Health Systems

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    Examines how integration and ties with health plans, physicians, and hospitals helped protect against revenue volatility and enabled experimentation; factors that facilitate integration; innovative practices; lessons learned; and policy implications

    Prescriptions for Excellence in Health Care Summer 2012 Download Full PDF

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    The Performance Improvement Imperative: Utilizing a Coordinated, Community-Based Approach to Enhance Care and Lower Costs for Chronically Ill Patients

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    Proposes principles for federal leadership and a community-level strategy for improving healthcare performance for high-cost patients as a way to curb health spending. Lists programmatic priorities and design considerations for intervention initiatives

    Prescriptions for Excellence in Health Care, Spring 2014:Issue 21, Download PDF

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    Prescriptions for Excellence in Health Care Spring 2013 Download Full PDF

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