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Special Report - Health Care - June 21, 2012
Rewarding efficiency
Rockwood Clinic PS joins Premera effort to move away from fee-for-service approach

By Chey Scott
Of the Journal of Business

Bill Akers says a shift to a payment-incentive model of reimbursing for health care could curb the rate of cost increases. Premera Blue Cross is expanding that model to include a total of 13 physician groups statewide.
Bill Akers says a shift to a payment-incentive model of reimbursing for health care could curb the rate of cost increases. Premera Blue Cross is expanding that model to include a total of 13 physician groups statewide.
—Staff photo by Chey Scott
As part of an effort to curb the rapidly increasing cost of health care, Mountlake Terrace, Wash.-based medical insurance provider Premera Blue Cross has expanded a new payment model it's developed, called global outcomes contracting, to include a total of 13 physician groups across the state.

Spokane-based Rockwood Clinic PS, the big Community Health Systems Inc.-owned specialty physician group, at the beginning of this year signed a multiyear agreement with Premera to test that n...


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