Payer-provider collaboration in accountable care reduced use and improved quality in Maine medicare advantage plan

Health Affairs

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2074-2083

  Claffey, Thomas F ^a,b   Agostini, Joseph V ^c   Collet, Elizabeth N ^a   Reisman, Lonny ^c   Krakauer, Randall ^c  

^a NovaHealth ^*  (United States)

^b MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AETNA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COST CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LAW; MEDICARE; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALIZATION; MAINE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICARE PART C; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870263867     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.1141     Document Type: Article

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