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Money-losing system says 'no' to accountable care—for now
By Merrill Goozner | October 11, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Reform Update: Exchange preparedness varies in GOP-led states
By Maureen McKinney | September 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Officials in Republican-led states with federally facilitated exchanges report widely varying levels of competition and preparedness in advance of the Oct. 1 start of open enrollment.
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Inside Oregon's Medicaid lab | A year into Oregon's Medicaid experiment, everyone is watching to see if accountable care can curb Medicaid costs
By Joe Rojas-Burke | September 07, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
On a recent Wednesday morning, a hospital in Portland, Ore., paged Dr. Christina Milano, a family physician, to notify her that one of her patients was in the emergency room. Within a half-hour, another hospital called when the same patient showed up in its ER.
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Cigna acquires home healthcare company Alegis
By Rachel Landen | September 03, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Cigna Corp., Bloomfield, Conn., has acquired Chicago-based Alegis Care, a portfolio company of private equity firm Triton Pacific Capital Partners since 2006.
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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: N.Y. joins controversial care-coordination pilot for dual-eligibles
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 27, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Despite controversy surrounding a national pilot to coordinate coverage and care for people dually enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare, New York announced Monday it would join six other states in the demonstration headed by the CMS.
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Healthcare at home | Doctor, home-care partnership ensures superior post-acute clinical service
By Dr. Michael Fleming | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
For a long time, many of us healthcare professionals have operated largely within our own comfort zones. We do just as we've always done, acting independently of each other, as if in our own private universe. We saw little incentive to change, least of all soon.
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Severity of readmission punishments doubling for hospitals
By Joe Carlson | August 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The number of hospitals facing financial penalties for failing to stop patients from returning to the hospital will remain steady next year, but the potential severity of the punishments is doubling.
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CMS names ACOs leaving Pioneer program
By Jessica Zigmond | July 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The CMS has named nine Pioneer accountable care organizations that will exit the program next year, including seven that have signaled they will enter the Medicare Shared Savings Program model and two that will drop out of Medicare accountable care entirely.
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PatientPoint names new executives
By Rachel Landen | June 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
PatientPoint, the provider of a mobile-enabled care coordination and patient engagement platform, has named two new executives to its Orlando, Fla., leadership team—John McAuley as COO and Eldon Richards as VP of engineering and technology services.
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