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Geisinger uses a little of all three strategies. Founded in 1915 as a 70-bed hospital in a small, underserved rural community, the operation now spans a 43-county region, with a total of 67 sites - stretching from one-doctor offices and in-store clinics to a sprawling main campus...
It's in the operating room that the new way of doing things is most graphically illustrated. Surgery in the U.S. is billed the same à la carte way primary care is: separate charges for the hospital, the anesthesiologist, the lead surgeon, the post-op checkups, and on and on...
In 2004, Steele decided to fix this, switching Geisinger over to a prix fixe, episode-care model for surgery, starting with the heart bypass. Under the new system, a closely coordinated team of caregivers would be responsible for every stage of a bypass patient's treatment and recovery. The hospital...
Yale opened a new cancer hospital and research center on Thursday—a blow to Harvard's ambitions, now that it has grown increasingly likely that Allston may not host a stem cell research center after all.
At the same time, actually getting the vaccine to the people who most need it - pregnant women, kids between the ages of six months and 24 years, health workers - hasn't been easy either. Complaints of vaccine shortages have emerged around the country, and local public health departments say they...