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PubMed2004

What insurers know about your hospital ... and how they are using it.

Insurers are using their purchasing power and their enormous stores of claims data to push hospitals to improve quality. Health plans are able to parse the data according to such quality indicators as cost, length of stay and outcomes. Hospitals are wary of the trend, but some welcome it, especially if insurers use the so-called pay-for-performance model.

Benchmarking↗
PubMed2004

Primary care. The odd couple.

Acute and primary care trust relationships can be fraught with baggage, vagueness and stereotypes. Changing that is about overt behaviours as well as structural and strategic issues. Payment by results and attitudes to commissioning pose significant challenges.

Contract Services↗
PubMed2004

Keeper of the bar.

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Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed2005

Primary care. Go with the flow.

A lack of high-quality managers and a need for more commissioning muscle will encourage PCTs to merge. They will not be forced to do so by the government. Practice-based commissioning will take some responsibilities away from PCTs, but they will still have a big agenda. Trusts that have merged in all but name extol the benefits of keeping a local focus while freeing up resources from improved management capacity.

Community Health Planning↗