Health care innovations starting to produce measurable results

INNOVATION AND SAVINGS: Coastal Medical President and CEO Dr. G. Alan Kurose speaks at a 2013 PBN summit on health care reform. Also on the panel, from left, Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, president and CEO of Lifespan, James Roosevelt Jr., CEO of Tufts Health Plan, and Peter Andruszkiewicz, president and CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
INNOVATION AND SAVINGS: Coastal Medical President and CEO Dr. G. Alan Kurose speaks at a 2013 PBN summit on health care reform. Also on the panel, from left, Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, president and CEO of Lifespan, James Roosevelt Jr., CEO of Tufts Health Plan, and Peter Andruszkiewicz, president and CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Two recent studies reveal that two of the latest concepts for reducing health care spending and improving health outcomes are doing what they were designed to do. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island released a five-year, longitudinal study last week that showed patient-centered medical-home practices were 5 percent less costly than a standard

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