IHAâs engagement with bundled payment emerged from a value-based purchasing project as a promising opportunity to align incentives and improve coordination across care settings. In 2009, the California HealthCare Foundation funded an IHA pilot project to test implementation of bundled payments in California. A year later, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded IHA a three-year grant to expand the bundled payment demonstration.
And if you're jetting off on holiday you can take advantage of travelling light, with no pushchair, nappies or toys in tow. If you're carrying one baby and you've had an uncomplicated pregnancy, then you can fly up to 36 weeks of pregnancy.
Most experts say it is unlikely that flying will cause pre-term delivery. I don't think that there is any evidence to suggest that flying can cause women to go into labor, says Dr. John Repke, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.