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Arkansas’s Medicaid program is getting noticed.
Earlier this summer, the state launched a new gainsharing initiative aimed at improving the efficiencies of medicine by keeping down costs for five high-volume episodes of care while still meeting quality standards.
The episodes of care are perinatal care, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, upper respiratory infection, hip and knee replacement, and heart failure.
If providers in the program succeed in saving money, they will pocket a percentage of those funds. If they don’t, they’ll need to return some of the excess fees.
As the New York Times blogger Ezekiel J. Emanuel points out, while such strategies have been tested on a small scale, “this change will now be made in every corner of the state, for every hospital, and physicians in almost every specialty: surgeons, anesthesiologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, primary care physicians. For policy makers and the public, the Arkansas experiment is fascinating.
“If Arkansas succeeds — even partly — it will show the way for the rest of the country,” he wrote.
Arkansas’s Medicaid program is getting noticed.
Earlier this summer, the state launched a new gainsharing initiative aimed at improving the efficiencies of medicine by keeping down costs for five high-volume episodes of care while still meeting quality standards.
The episodes of care are perinatal care, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, upper respiratory infection, hip and knee replacement, and heart failure.
If providers in the program succeed in saving money, they will pocket a percentage of those funds. If they don’t, they’ll need to return some of the excess fees.
As the New York Times blogger Ezekiel J. Emanuel points out, while such strategies have been tested on a small scale, “this change will now be made in every corner of the state, for every hospital, and physicians in almost every specialty: surgeons, anesthesiologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, primary care physicians. For policy makers and the public, the Arkansas experiment is fascinating.
“If Arkansas succeeds — even partly — it will show the way for the rest of the country,” he wrote.
Arkansas’s Medicaid program is getting noticed.
Earlier this summer, the state launched a new gainsharing initiative aimed at improving the efficiencies of medicine by keeping down costs for five high-volume episodes of care while still meeting quality standards.
The episodes of care are perinatal care, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, upper respiratory infection, hip and knee replacement, and heart failure.
If providers in the program succeed in saving money, they will pocket a percentage of those funds. If they don’t, they’ll need to return some of the excess fees.
As the New York Times blogger Ezekiel J. Emanuel points out, while such strategies have been tested on a small scale, “this change will now be made in every corner of the state, for every hospital, and physicians in almost every specialty: surgeons, anesthesiologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, primary care physicians. For policy makers and the public, the Arkansas experiment is fascinating.
“If Arkansas succeeds — even partly — it will show the way for the rest of the country,” he wrote.