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Cigna Plows Ahead with Quality-Based Reimbursement Venture
As part of a contract extension with Tenet Healthcare, Cigna has established a first of its kind quality-based reimbursement agreement.
As part of a contract extension with Tenet Healthcare, Cigna has established a first of its kind quality-based reimbursement agreement.
The deal extends in-network access for Cigna’s commercial and HealthSpring Medicare Advantage members at Tenet’s 77 hospitals and 190 outpatient centers in 15 states, mostly in the south, southwest and midwest, including Illinois, Texas and Florida.
It also represents Cigna’s first pay-for-quality contract with a health system. The arrangement “rewards Tenet hospitals for improved quality of care and cost efficiency, which, for the first year, will be based on national quality measures established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,” the companies said.
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Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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