Insurance companies in ny
Professional Issues
- UnitedHealthcare Signs NY Physician Ranking Agreement
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has accomplished a clean sweep in his efforts to enlist insurance company support of a new physician ranking model that would make such programs in New York state fair and transparent. The latest development was announced in a Nov. 20 press release, in which Cuomo said that health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, or UHC, as well as two smaller health plans, had signed legal agreements stating that they would abide by the new rules. - Meeting Quality Measures Doesn't Necessarily Improve Outcomes
Pay-for-performance, or P4P, programs, as currently constructed, may not always result in healthier patients. So says Katie Coleman, M.S.P.H., lead author of a recently published study that examined a performance-based compensation system for providers at a network of federally qualified health centers located in underserved communities throughout Chicago and surrounding suburbs. - NY Attorney General Reins In Physician Ranking Programs
During the past few weeks, three major health insurance companies in New York state -- CIGNA, Aetna and Empire BlueCross BlueShield -- have bent to pressure applied by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and agreed to restructure their physician ranking programs. - PCPCC Announces Plans to Recognize Patient-Centered Medical Homes
The nation's largest primary care collaborative plans to use a new voluntary designation program from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, or NCQA, to recognize physician practices as patient-centered medical homes, a development designed to promote comprehensive and coordinated care. The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, or PCPCC, is a coalition representing some of the country's largest corporations, policy-makers, consumers and 330,000 primary care physicians. The coalition unveiled the voluntary designation program during a national health care summit in Washington on Nov. 7. - New York Times Looks at Need to Pay FPs More
The New York Times has trumpeted the message that family doctors need to be paid more in an article published Nov. 7 -- the same day that the AAFP and about 40 major employers, insurers, consumer groups, physician organizations and other stakeholders in the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, or PCPCC, sponsored a national health care summit in Washington. - Innovative Scheduling Benefits Docs, Patients
Jessica Messner has bronchitis, and she's grateful that her family physician, Neal Erickson, M.D., of Kansas City, Mo., is able to see her today. Messner says she's never been to a retail health clinic, and she doesn't think she'll ever need to visit one. That's because Erickson and his partners at Kansas City Family Medical Care are making patient access to health care as convenient as possible.
