With the close of oral arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and individual mandate, healthcare leaders remain hanging in the balance. Do they march forward with new care models to improve patient quality/safety, enhance patient experience, reduce readmissions and re-engineer transitions?
With the close of oral arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and individual mandate, healthcare leaders remain hanging in the balance. Do they march forward with new care models to improve patient quality/safety, enhance patient experience, reduce readmissions and re-engineer transitions?
As noted in a recent HealthLeaders Media article, Michael Dowling, president and CEO of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, responded that his organization has been working toward bundled payments, greater transparency, and preventive medicine, and away from fee-for-service “for years before the law.”
(Most importantly), “Innovators will continue to move forward, no matter what happens with the Supreme Court,” he says.
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