Mathematica awards contract to Premier to serve as lead partner in implementing national learning system for Next Generation ACOs CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement company, and Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, have (more…)
By Joe Damore, vice president of population health, Premier, Inc. The Premier healthcare alliance congratulates newly-approved and renewing ACOs for their selection by CMS for the next round of the Medicare Shared Savings (MSSP) and the Next Generation ACO (NGACO) (more…)
Health Affairs: Susan DeVore: With the upcoming Presidential election, health care is once again keeping us up at night. How much of the current debate is hyperbolic rhetoric? What policy changes are realistic in an election year? What market trends in (more…)
U.S. News & World Report: The change may not always be obvious to patients in doctors’ offices or hospitals. But after decades of business-as-usual health care – nearly 50 million people without health coverage; fee-for-service payments that reward doctors for doing (more…)
HFMA: Hospitals are increasingly concerned about a year-end legislative push in Congress to delay for a year or more Medicare’s first mandatory bundled payment program… But now that the final rule has been issued, hospitals want the implementation to go forward (more…)
HealthLeaders Media: The march toward value-based care continues, powered in part by regulatory changes of varying degrees of complexity and effectiveness. Danielle Lloyd, Premier vice president, policy and advocacy, weighs in on what’s changing. Full story
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For the second year in a row, leading research firm KLAS has recognized Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement company, as having the best overall performance in providing value-based care consulting services to support population (more…)
Technology remains top area of capital spend, according to health system C-suite CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Capital expenses needed to effectively manage population health are on the rise, according to C-suite respondents to Premier, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: PINC) fall 2015 Economic Outlook (more…)
First-of-its-kind initiative designed to improve inpatient and outpatient care for surgical patients CHARLOTTE & SAN DIEGO – October 26, 2015 – The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement company, will extend their (more…)
The Wall Street Transcript: Michael J. Alkire is Chief Operating Officer — COO — for Premier, Inc., a healthcare performance improvement alliance helping hospitals and health systems provide better patient care while reducing costs. As COO, Mr. Alkire leads the continued (more…)