Accountable Care Organizations news and information

The Medicare Shared Savings Program isn't yielding rapid rewards for systems piloting ACOs in the project's first wave.
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Jeffrey Weinstein, executive director and CEO of Hunterdon Healthcare Partners, explains the physician hospital organization's work toward clinical integration and participation in public and private innovations in payment models. He was interviewed during the Healthcare Financial Management...
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WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Key Physicians, one of North Carolina's biggest physicians practices, announced a partnership Monday designed to minimize federal penalties and maximize financial rewards under the national healthcare law.
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Debate over quality measures among Medicare's first accountable care organizations and federal officials will likely have significance for the 220 (and growing) other accountable care efforts under Medicare, a former CMS administrator says.
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Medicare's accountable care push isn't doing enough for the patients who need them the most, said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Wyden, speaking last week at the National Accountable Care Organization Summit in Washington, said the attribution rule under the Patient...
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It's no surprise that collaboration between payers and providers will continue to increase as the launch of health insurance exchanges in October approaches. But sustaining that cooperation will require “physician champions” to work closely with payers and more simplified contracts...
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A leading proponent of Medicare reform on Capitol Hill says Congress should change the accountable care program to make sure ACOs are improving care for the sickest patients.
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The coming weeks are shaping up to be a big deal for states still on the fence regarding Medicaid expansion.
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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is trying to live up to the first two words in its name. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has been tapped by PCORI to scale up their prototype of a Web-based crowd-sourcing platform called WellSpringboard, which is...
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The next chief of the CMS' idea lab will enter the scene just as early results emerge from the young agency's first efforts. Those returns will be closely scrutinized for clues to solving the nation's toughest health policy challenges, as well as picked apart for political gain.
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