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Bundled Payment for Maternal Health: An Opportunity to Change Healthcare Financing

By | January 24, 2020

The need for a comprehensive payment approach that supports the entire maternity care experience from prenatal, labor, and delivery, to postnatal care, is critical for both maternal and child health outcomes. Aligning payment to reward better birth outcomes is becoming more widespread. A handful of states are experimenting with bundled payments to advance value-based payment… Read More »

Hospital interpretation and payment incentives

By | November 5, 2017

Access to interpreters improves health care and is generally required by law. Why then, is interpretation access hard to come by in hospitals? From a hospital staff perspective, appropriate policies may be in place, and hospital staff motivated to offer excellent patient care, but all the demands of providing medical care can lead to system breakdown.… Read More »