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How did Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization meet Medicare's cost targets and receive substantial shared savings in the first year of the Medicare Pioneer ACO experiment? Data analytics.
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The participants in the Obama administration's most aggressive experiment with accountable care had better success improving quality than lowering costs, according to first-year results.
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UnitedHealth Group said it will more than double payments to physicians tied to quality and cost efficiency within five years, in the latest sign of transformation in the U.S. medical system.
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Time is running out for several undecided Medicare Pioneer accountable care organizations to choose whether to stay or go.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., has named Terry Carroll chief innovation officer.
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Job cuts in healthcare are hardly rare these days, but St. Vincent Health's newly announced layoffs in Indiana will certainly grab some eyeballs.
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With the anticipated arrival of some 14 million newly insured individuals into the nation's healthcare system in 2014, a major concern that remains is whether coverage will equal access. Texas lawmakers, physicians and nurse practitioners have taken a step forward on that problem while many other...
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Moore (Okla.) Medical Center, a satellite site of Norman (Okla.) Regional Health System, took a direct hit from the terrible tornado that killed 24 people and injured 377 others May 20. It will most likely never open its doors again. However, as Modern Healthcare reported, the medical center had...
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Medicare's most ambitious test of accountable care could lose a substantial number of its participants after the first year.
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Seton Health Alliance entered an accountable care contract with UnitedHealthcare that the organizations said could extend the reach of the Seton ACO to as many as 320,000 Texans covered by the insurer's employer-sponsored plans.
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