How Atrius Health Does Global Payments

Speaker: Richard Lopez, MD, Chief Physician Executive, Atrius Health
Atrius Health is the parent company for five practice groups in eastern Massachusetts, with nearly 700 physicians. Its founding practice group, Harvard Community Health Plan, was one of the pioneers of a capitated payment system in the late 1960s.

Among the issues he addresses:
* What physician groups need to be successful in a global payment system
* The differences in delivering care in a global payment system
* Whether global payments are the right" answer for Massachusetts

Atrius Health's six part commentary of global payments," Examining Health Care: Demystifying Global Payments," is available at http://www.atriushealth.org/news/examininghealthcarehome.asp

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• global
• payments
• capitation
• MMS
• payment
• reform