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Magazine
Learning from ACOs and other letters
By Modern Healthcare | July 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
About “Why one Medicare Pioneer ACO succeeded in saving money”, I really like this article. It is so easy to just listen for and repeat negative comments about the Pioneer ACO experience. I like to learn from...
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The value in price transparency | It's time for hospitals to look inward for reasons behind cost disparity
By Merrill Goozner | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The controversy surrounding hospital pricing resurfaced last week after the CMS released hospital charges and payments for the top 100 diagnosis-related groups.
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Melanie Evans Of Interest Blog
Blog: Who's in your ACO?
By Melanie Evans | March 11, 2013
Hundreds of hospitals and medical groups have entered into contracts with insurers (notably Medicare) to deliver savings and quality gains. In return, hospitals and doctors may get a share of whatever they save. The contracts, called accountable care organizations, are popular but experimental and...
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Melanie Evans Of Interest Blog
Blog - After the election: How will new accountable care deals shape up?
By Melanie Evans | November 16, 2012
As my colleagues and I reported this week, the re-election of President Barack Obama eased some of the uncertainty over the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Melanie Evans Of Interest Blog
Blog: Capital (and competition) drive solo hospital into merger
By Melanie Evans | October 12, 2012
Chilton Hospital officials saw greater access to capital for ambulatory expansion, information technology and other investments to prepare for accountable care as one compelling reason to join a larger health system.
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A promising medical marriage
By (St. Paul, Minn.) Star Tribune | September 10, 2012
For all the complaints about a "government takeover of health care," the 2010 Affordable Care Act left intact a system not only firmly based on private-sector providers and insurers, but highly dependent on innovation by both to bring about the change needed to deliver affordable, high-quality...
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The good old ways
By The Economist | September 06, 2012
Beneath the interminable squabbles over Barack Obama’s health law, a transformation is taking place. To date most doctors have been rewarded for providing more rather than better services. This is unsustainable.
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Melanie Evans Of Interest Blog
Blog: It's not an ACO! A New York system experiments to save money, improve care
August 31, 2012
Accountable care, like political ads during a presidential campaign, is everywhere these days. And like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the frenzy around accountable care organizations have left them overexposed.
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Best healthcare reform you've never heard of
By Quad City Times | August 13, 2012
Regardless of who is elected president in November, the issues driving healthcare reform are not going away. New models for health care are in our future, and there will be benefits for everyone as health care providers work together to create healthier communities.
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A state takeover of healthcare
By Worcester (Mass.) Telegram | August 08, 2012
We no longer have to wonder about what the future under Obamacare may look like, as it has been forced on Massachusetts in legislation just passed as Senate Bill 2400.
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