"Health & Medical News"

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Paying substance abuse treatment providers for results, not services, may lead to improved quality of care, according to the first published study of a novel performance-based contracting system implemented by the State of Delaware in 2002.

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Washington — Offering health insurance is a first step employers can take to improve employees’ well-being. A second step increasingly is likely to be taken: ensuring that the health care employees receive adequately addresses the needs of an ever-more-diverse work force.

Striving to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care is now recognized as a good business practice by some large employers, and a new coalition of business, medicine and public health groups has been formed to help advance this goal.

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Emergency departments are finding it increasingly difficult to get specialists to provide on-call coverage, a growing problem that threatens patient access to quality and timely care at hospitals, a new study said.

The study, released in November by the Center for Studying Health System Change, said hospitals have struggled during the past decade to get specialists to be on call at their EDs. But hospital executives and others interviewed for the report said the situation is worsening.

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