Health systems continue to grow in size. Financial integration—the ownership of hospitals or physician practices—often has anticompetitive effects that contribute to the higher prices for health care ...

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) will break its own rules to test new models. New alternative payment models (APM) underperformed during CMMI's first decade. CMMI hopes that a ...

Geisinger’s Ask-a-Doc program, which enables direct asynchronous communication between primary and specialty care, was associated with lower healthcare utilization and cost, implying more efficient ...

Aiming to increase care access, the national Primary Care–Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) initiative of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) embedded specialists, care managers, or both in ...

It's been more than 20 years since a landmark Institute of Medicine study reported siloing behavioral and primary health leads to inferior care, yet walls between the two still remain. A Milliman ...

This month's Crain's Forum explores Michigan’s $3 billion public mental health system, which has many layers for those in need to navigate. Integrated care has been a topic in the health care ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In recognition of this potential, the Health Resources and Services Administration ...

In every American community — wealthy or poor, rural or urban, young or old — at least 1 in 5 people live with mental health disorders. And yet no American community has an adequate supply of mental ...

The foundation of medically integrated pharmacy includes 7 critical pillars. This commentary focuses on the benefits of 3 of those pillars: abandonment, adherence, and access/affordability. Medically ...

Geography Should Not Be an “Oncologic Destiny” for Urothelial Cancer: Improving Access to Care by Removing Local, Regional, and International Barriers For more than a decade, advocates have urged ...