Accountable Care Organizations news and information

Meeting cost-saving targets and earning a bonus under Medicare's Pioneer accountable care experiment eluded more than a dozen participants in the program, and the risk of future losses prompted some to race for the exit.
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Medicare Pioneer ACOs that saved money on patient care—and will share Medicare's $140 million in total savings for 2012—credit their success to an intense focus on improving coordination and care for the most complex and costly patients.
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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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Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark Health Services is creating an accountable care network as the next step in an ambitious and nationally watched move into healthcare delivery.
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The push by hospital operators into the health insurance business continues as pressure increases to prepare for alternatives to fee-for-service payment. Adventist Health, a large California-based health system with 18 hospitals in four states, is expected to seek California's approval for an...
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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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Atrius Health is one of nearly two dozen ACOs that agreed to stick with Medicare's test of the promising but unproven model. Atrius also saw a financial loss during the experiment's first year.
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How did Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization meet Medicare's cost targets and receive substantial shared savings in the first year of the Medicare Pioneer ACO experiment? Data analytics.
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The participants in the Obama administration's most aggressive experiment with accountable care had better success improving quality than lowering costs, according to first-year results.
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A year after leaving Seattle Children's Hospital for Boston, Drexel DeFord has left his position as CIO of Steward Health Care System and joined venture capital firm Next Wave Health as a principal adviser.
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