The Federal Trade Commission and the Idaho attorney general will file an antitrust challenge to try to unravel the 3-month-old acquisition of the state's largest physician practice by its biggest health system. FULL STORY »
In 2013, participants in the CMS Innovation Center's Pioneer ACO model are scheduled to move from pay-for-reporting to pay-for-performance—and are getting nervous about how they will be judged. FULL STORY »
Chief information officers in healthcare are caught between their immediate concerns and the unknown challenges of future healthcare payment reforms, but without all the information they'll need to steer their course. FULL STORY »
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is the first children's hospital to earn the National Committee for Quality Assurance's accreditation as an accountable care organization. FULL STORY »
The FTC has bestowed rare approval on a proposed arrangement between a large group of Oklahoma doctors and a local hospital, even though those involved admit planning to raise some prices. FULL STORY »
The CMS is bringing its care-coordination and shared-savings model to end-stage renal disease in a program that aims to extract cost savings and improve quality. FULL STORY »
Two large Texas health systems with Medicare accountable care contracts are among the latest to enter into commercial ACOs in deals that suggest a growing willingness to adopt the largely untested payment model amid increasing pressure on providers and payers to curb health spending. FULL STORY »
Physicians are in the vanguard of developing accountable care organizations in the sprawling Los Angeles market, a new report found, with large physician practices driving the change. FULL STORY »
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