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Earlier this year, Allegiance Health in Jackson County, Mich., began investigating whether to join Medicare's shared-savings program after seeing it was losing patients to neighboring counties.
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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Health System is collaborating with Rutgers University to create a Medicare accountable care organization that will be unique in New Jersey as it will involve academic researchers working with physicians.
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In five markets around the U.S., ACOs were caring for more than half the Medicare patients in the traditional fee-for-service program and were likelier to be in areas with more provider consolidation.
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MemorialCare Health System and UC Irvine Health said Wednesday they will together open a string of primary-care health centers in Southern California.
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A Medicare test of accountable care in Wisconsin slowed cost growth last year for about 20,000 seniors. That's good news, of course, to economists and policymakers. But for hospitals, the news was not all good because most payers continue to reimburse on a fee-for-service basis rewarding more...
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Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, has completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville.
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