Geisinger Gold, Geisinger Health Plan Rank in Top Ten of Health Plans Nationally
Geisinger Gold and Geisinger Health Plan (GHP) are the top-ranked commercial and Medicare health plans in Pennsylvania and in the top ten nationally for quality and service. See U.S. News rankings

A Healthier Way to Pay Doctors
Time Magagine looks at the effort to rein in health-care costs by examining Geisinger's group practice approach.
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Healthcare Cure or Anomaly?
The Philadelphia Inquirer examines Geisinger's ability to deliver high-quality care at costs below average.
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 Better Care, Less Pay
An Associated Press story that ran in over 300 newspapers notes: "At Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, pay a flat fee for bypass surgery and you'll get essentially a 90-day warranty on your heart fix. Complications? The hospital has to eat the cost. It gambled that following a checklist of best practices would help patients recover faster and cost less -- and so far, it's winning the bet."
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President Obama cites Geisinger as healthcare industry model
"We have to ask why places like the Geisinger Health system in rural Pennsylvania...can offer high-quality care at costs well below average, but other places in America can't. We need to identify the best practices across the country, learn from the success, and replicate that success elsewhere."
See Text of President's Speech at Green Bay Southwest

Geisinger Careworks retail clinic featured in New York Times
Geisinger’s Careworks Convenient Healthcare™ retail clinics were featured in a recent New York Times article entitled, Hospitals Begin to Move Into Supermarkets.
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For this health system, less is more
Progtam that guarantees doint things right the first time for a flat fee pays off
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'Medical home' approach brings back managed care
Boston Globe article on managed care quotes Ronald Paulus, MD
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PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer
On March 30, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer featured Drs. Steele, Casale and Paulus, and other members of Geisinger staff in a story on our electronic health record capabilities, ProvenCare and Medical Home - and how they relate to healthcare reform.
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Managing Heart Attacks
Geisinger's Level 1 Heart Attack program is profiled in a recent WKOK Roundtable discussion.
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Geisinger recognized on PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer
In a PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer segment entitled Fixing the American Healthcare System, Stuart Altman, PhD, professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University, cited Geisinger Health System for its work in improving healthcare quality and value by paying for episodes of care or bundles of care.
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Continuous Innovation in Health Care: Implications of the Geisinger Experience
Finding innovative ways to deliver healthcare to patients is key to ensuring that Medicare is able to meet the needs of the nation’s baby boomers according to a new paper by Geisinger Health System leaders published in Health Affairs.
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Medical "Home" Plan Cut Hospital Admissions: Study
Reuters Health News writes about the success of Geisinger's medical home program and how the program cuts hospital readmissions.
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Defying convention, cutting costs, and improving health care
Fast Company magazine takes an in-depth look at Geisinger's ProvenCare program and the program's potential to change America's health care system.
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Geisinger Health System has pioneered a new program called ProvenCare
The New York Times reports that it’s an experiment that experts say is "radically new way to encourage hospitals and doctors to provide high-quality care that can avoid costly mistakes."
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Diabetes care: CMS Group Demonstration Project
Gannett News Service and USA Today feature Geisinger's re-engineered diabetes care program
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ICU visitation
The Boston Globe writes about open visitations in ICUs, and mentions Geisinger's highly successful program.
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PTSD research
Reuters news service writes a story about a research study by nationally-recognized Geisinger researcher Dr. Joseph Boscarino on the link between PTSD and heart disease.
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Advances in healthcare
Innovative Geisinger Health System profiled in front-page Sunday story in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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