Geisinger

This industry snapshot is enhanced with commentary from healthcare organizations such as Geisinger Health Plan, whose strategic placement and utilization of case managers has yielded significant savings in the areas of care transition management, hospital readmissions, medication adherence, risk stratification, emergency room visits and care plan compliance.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

Those that do - like the Geisinger Clinic or Intermountain Health Care - are justly celebrated.

Stephen M. Davidson: Reforming Medicare Without Harming Seniors Stephen M. Davidson 2011

It took the Geisinger Health System based in Danville, Pa., which operates a successful Medicare Advantage health plan, three years before they saw any shared savings.

Can Accountable-Care Organizations Improve Health Care While Reducing Costs? Anna Wilde Mathews 2012

Using the Geisinger database, it took only a few weeks to identify 5,300 patients who fit the study's parameters, says Peter Berger, director of Geisinger's Center for Clinical Studies.

Making Clinical Trials Less of a Tribulation Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

We have long known that some places, like the Intermountain Healthcare in Utah or the Geisinger Health System in rural Pennsylvania, offer high-quality care at costs below average.

Obama: Nation is at 'a breaking point' over health care 2009

Those that do - like the Geisinger Clinic or Intermountain Health Care - are justly celebrated.

Stephen M. Davidson: Reforming Medicare Without Harming Seniors Stephen M. Davidson 2011

One well-known example is the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, which provides care, offers insurance, employs doctors and runs hospitals.

As more hospital systems consolidate, experts say health-care prices will jump Julie Appleby 2010

If complications arise or the patient returns to the hospital, Geisinger bears the additional cost.

Wonk Room » Cost Containment Will Require Government Action 2009

One well-known example is the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, which provides care, offers insurance, employs doctors and runs hospitals.

As more hospital systems consolidate, experts say health-care prices will jump Julie Appleby 2010

- Geisinger Health Systems And Payment Reform: Geisinger has devised a 90-day warranty on elective heart surgery, promising to get it right the first time, for a flat fee.

Wonk Room » Cost Containment Will Require Government Action 2009