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Money-losing system says 'no' to accountable care—for now Merrill Goozner | 10/11/13 - 12:01 am Robert Wood Johnson, Rutgers to create unique ACO NJBiz.com (Somerset, N.J.) | 10/10/13 - 1:15 pm Reform Update: ACOs more likely to be in markets with hospital, doctor consolidation, study finds Melanie Evans | 10/7/13 - 3:30 pm MemorialCare, UC Irvine to open primary-care centers in Calif. Ashok Selvam | 10/2/13 - 7:00 pm Switch ACO model to efficiency incentives from volume, authors say Melanie Evans | 10/2/13 - 2:00 pm Tenet completes $1.8 billion acquisition of Vanguard Beth Kutscher | 10/1/13 - 10:45 am Baylor, Scott & White merger creates $8.3 billion system in Texas Melanie Evans | 10/1/13 - 8:15 am ACP paper outlines 'fresh thinking' for team-based care Andis Robeznieks | 9/17/13 - 12:45 pm

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ACO veterans share lessons from the trenches at MGMA

Stephen Nuckolls, CEO of Coastal Carolina Health Care, New Bern, N.C., shared some lessons at the Medical Group Management Association annual conference yesterday from his organization's experience in running a Medicare accountable care organization....

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Finding their way home

Andis Robeznieks | October 05, 2013
Many healthcare providers and payers are moving forward with patient-centered medical homes to improve primary care and care coordination and reduce...
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Managing population health

Modern Healthcare | September 21, 2013
Population health is more than a buzzword. The nation is experiencing an obesity epidemic, the continued ill effects of smoking and environmental...
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Inside Oregon's Medicaid lab

Joe Rojas-Burke | September 07, 2013
On a recent Wednesday morning, a hospital in Portland, Ore., paged Dr. Christina Milano, a family physician, to notify her that one of her patients...
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Controlling costs

Steven Ross Johnson | September 07, 2013
Some states are emulating Oregon, and others are following somewhat different paths to control
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Better operating rooms

Dr. John Di Capua | September 07, 2013
The majority of hospitals in the U.S. are struggling to transition from fee-for-service to capitated
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The healthcare spending slowdown

Merrill Goozner | August 10, 2013
Taken together, the ACA delivery system reforms have significantly shifted the national discussion among healthcare leaders. They are now universally...
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Healthcare at home

Dr. Michael Fleming | August 10, 2013
For a long time, many of us healthcare professionals have operated largely within our own comfort zones. We do just as we've always done, acting...
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ACOs are worth the risk

Merrill Goozner | July 20, 2013
The first-year results from Medicare's Pioneer ACO pilot project showed all 32 of the provider participants met their quality improvement-reporting...
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