Press Releases

May 26, 2010
Integrated Healthcare Association Supports Innovative Health Care Reform Pilot
OAKLAND, Calif., May 26, 2010 - The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) announced today its endorsement of an innovative pilot aimed to increase health care quality and lowercosts. The Accountable Care...

April 26, 2010
Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) Launches Episode of Care Payment Project
OAKLAND, Calif. , April 26, 2010 - The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has launched a pilot project to test whether episode of care payments (bundled payments) for specific medical procedures...

September 24, 2009
California Physician Organization Top Performers and Most Improved Honored
OAKLAND, Calif., September 24, 2009 - IHA presented statewide pay for performance awards; Solano Regional Medical Group achieves both overall top performance and most improved awards...

September 23, 2009
Med-Vantage, Leapfrog and IHA Sponsor Free Webinar to Present Final Results from 4th National P4P Survey and New Consumer Transparency Survey
SAN FRANCISCO and OAKLAND, Calif., and WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 23, 2009 - Health plans' experience with pay-for-performance and consumer transparency as agents of change...

August 27, 2009
Substantial Regional Variation in California Healthcare Performance  
OAKLAND, Calif., August 27, 2009 - New healthcare performance results released by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) show substantial variation in key performance measures across geographical regions...

July 21, 2009
Integrated Healthcare Association Releases White Paper on Pay for Performance
OAKLAND, Calif., July 21, 2009 - The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) is pleased to announce the publication of "The Second Chapter," a white paper outlining the successes and key learnings of the California pay for performance (P4P) program for Measurement Years 2006 - 2009...

October 2, 2008
IHA Announces P4P Program Results and Award Winners
OAKLAND, Calif., October 2, 2008 - The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) today announced the pay for performance (P4P) program results and performance award winners. The California P4P program is in its fifth year...

May 30, 2008
Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Integrated Healthcare Association
to Improve Medical Devices Use
OAKLAND, Calif., May 30, 2008 - Blue Shield of California Foundation has awarded a $1.3 million medical technologies grant to the IHA to implement statewide collection of comparative data, evaluate purchasing and payment systems, and develop a new episode-based payment method for medical device purchasing...

February 27, 2008
IHA announces 2007 P4P Payouts
OAKLAND, Calif., February 27, 2008 - Pay for performance (P4P) bonus payouts from health plans to California physician groups to reward quality of patient care totaled $65 million in 2007...

February 7, 2008
Integrated Healthcare Association Welcomes Leah Binder,
New CEO of Leapfrog Group to National Pay for Performance Summit
OAKLAND, Calif., February 7, 2008 - IHA welcomes Leah Binder, CEO of The Leapfrog Group to the third annual National Pay for Performance Summit at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, February 27-29, 2008...

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