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Reform Update: Lack of network restrictions source of trouble for some ACOs
By Melanie Evans | September 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As more hospitals and physicians have money on the line for healthcare quality and cost, their attempts to control costs have grown more intense and ambitious. This would be good news if the path to more effective and less costly care were clear, but it's not. That has transformed many of the...
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Scottsdale Healthcare, John C. Lincoln systems to combine
By Gregg Blesch | August 29, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare and John C. Lincoln Health Network in Phoenix are forming an umbrella company to operate their five not-for-profit hospitals in order to adjust more nimbly to new payment and delivery models.
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Care coordination may lead to less competition, higher prices, article says
By Melanie Evans | August 29, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Better medical care may arise from new public policies to promote more coordination from hospitals, doctors and others in healthcare, but there may be a high price to pay, according to two economists.
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Reform Update: ACO contracts may slow spending, but quality may not improve, says study
By Melanie Evans | August 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As accountable care organizations proliferate, a new study suggests that overall health spending may slow when hospitals and medical groups agree to the new payment model with even one insurer. That's good news for proponents of accountable care, who hope to see a change in healthcare financing...
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JAMA report findings support integrated, risk-sharing ACOs, authors say
By Andis Robeznieks | August 28, 2013
Larger independent physician groups with “strong primary-care orientations” and where doctors have accepted greater financial risk deliver better quality care for Medicare beneficiaries at lower cost, according to a report in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Hospitals seeing benefits of partnering with insurance companies
By Melanie Evans | August 28, 2013
Two years ago, Florida Hospital successfully sought a state license to operate its own health plan. That plan soon stalled, as officials realized the cost and time required to build an insurance arm would be too great. A faster route, they decided, would be to buy one.
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Private-payer ACOs good for Medicare, study says
By Melanie Evans | August 27, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Medicare may enjoy the fruits of the growing and varied work among private payers and providers to boost value in healthcare, though the benefits will come sooner to costs than quality.
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Orange Health Solutions acquires ExtendMD
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Orange Health Solutions, which provides administrative and management services for providers in accountable care organizations and other coordinated-care models, has acquired medical technology company ExtendMD.
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ACOs: The new Rx for healthcare delivery?
By U.S. News and World Report | August 21, 2013
Many of the estimated 27 million people in ACOs aren't aware they are in one, but do notice that their doctors and other care providers seem more attentive to their needs.
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Reform Update: AMA blasts new Medicare physician fee schedule, defends RUC
By Andis Robeznieks | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The AMA has issued a strong criticism of the proposed 2014 Medicare physician-fee schedule, and also fired back against attacks on its Medicare physician payment advisory panel.
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