Accountable Care Organizations news and information

Editor's note: As CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C., Michael Tarwater leads one of the largest public hospital systems in the U.S. and faces carrying out its mission in two states that have shunned the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With...
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney talks with Michael Tarwater, CEO of Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, N.C.
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Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief Jessica Zigmond talks with Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Cambridge Health Alliance and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston agreed to form a clinical and academic affiliation. Cambridge Health Alliance, operated by a public authority established by the state Legislature in 1996, is composed of Cambridge...
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NAPLES, Fla.—Health Management Associates, an investor-owned hospital company based in Naples, and Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee, will form an accountable care organization to serve patients in Brevard County, Fla. HMA's physicians, along with two of its...
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For a moment, set aside the debate over what happened since the recession to slow health spending to record lows. The slowdown held health spending to roughly the same rate of growth as the economy for two consecutive years after the recession, the most recent data show.
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As the care delivery models of hospitals and health systems evolve, healthcare executives and managers predict a major shift in admissions from inpatient to outpatient settings.
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Accountable care organizations in Medicare's Pioneer ACO program failed to win a one-year reprieve from having financial incentives tied to their performance on quality benchmarks.
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Medicare will tie financial incentives to quality performance this year for 32 accountable care organizations known as Pioneers, the CMS' first and most ambitious pilot of the new payment model.
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On a stormy evening this spring, nurses at Dr. Gary Stuck's family practice were phoning patients with heart ailments, asking them not to shovel snow. The idea was to keep them out of the hospital.
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