Premier : Longtime fight resolved over how Medicare pays docs
April 17, 2015 at 02:16 pm EDT
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Crain's: The permanent "doc-fix" deal that cleared the Senate by an overwhelming margin on Tuesday night ends a perennial fight over Medicare payments that's dragged on for more than a decade, Modern Healthcare reports. Blair Childs of Premier, an alliance of hospitals and other providers working on alternative payment models, said "This makes it starkly clear. There's no question that everyone's being pushed to alternative payment models. Physicians are going to start to engage in a way they haven't before."
Premier, Inc. is a healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 4,350 United States hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers and organizations. It operates through two segments: Supply Chain Services and Performance Services. The Supply Chain Services segment includes the Companyâs group purchasing organizations (GPO), supply chain co-management, purchased services, and direct sourcing activities. The Performance Services segment consists of three sub-brands, which include PINC AI, the Companyâs technology and services platform; Contigo Health, the Companyâs direct-to-employer business; and Remitra, the Companyâs digital invoicing and payables business. It delivers technology-enabled platform that offers critical supply chain services, clinical, financial, operational and value-based care software as a service (SaaS) as well as clinical and enterprise analytics licenses, consulting services, and third-party administrator services.
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