Accountable Care Organizations news and information

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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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Health System is collaborating with Rutgers University to create a Medicare accountable care organization that will be unique in New Jersey as it will involve academic researchers working with physicians.
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Hospitals spend less on operations—largely by squeezing labor costs—to make up for lost revenue when Medicare cuts hospital prices, according to a new study.
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Stephen Nuckolls, CEO of Coastal Carolina Health Care, New Bern, N.C., shared some lessons at the Medical Group Management Association annual conference yesterday from his organization's experience in running a Medicare accountable care organization.
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In five markets around the U.S., ACOs were caring for more than half the Medicare patients in the traditional fee-for-service program and were likelier to be in areas with more provider consolidation.
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A Medicare test of accountable care in Wisconsin slowed cost growth last year for about 20,000 seniors. That's good news, of course, to economists and policymakers. But for hospitals, the news was not all good because most payers continue to reimburse on a fee-for-service basis rewarding more...
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Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, has completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville.
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Accountable care organizations and other entities that do population health management will be heavily dependent on claims data from payers for the next 10 to 15 years, predicts Jonathan Weiner, professor of health policy and management and health informatics at the Bloomberg School of Public...
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DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver, is expanding its multispecialty medical group operations into a fifth state with the acquisition of Arizona Integrated Physicians.
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The CMS Innovation Center in February unveiled the first Medicare accountable care program for specialty care with the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative, which targets patients with end-stage renal disease.
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