A recent blog post in the reSOURCEs section of the HealthTrust public website discusses the risk and rewards of shared savings contracts. Shared savings contracts with managed care entities have ...

If hospitals launching health plans strikes some as a sign of traditional health insurance's coming extinction, the business model so many American hospitals were built upon – fee-for-service – is ...

A private oncology shared savings plan reduced colon cancer treatment costs. Results varied by tumor, with none in breast cancer and mixed effects in lung cancer. Objectives: Participation in the ...

Shared savings programs are useful for nudging providers’ behavior toward value, but they aren’t a true payment model that can sustain a health system, according to one executive. “Shared savings ...