Accountable Care Organizations news and information

Spending on healthcare is expected to rise just 4.5% next year as employers and providers make a number of moves to bring down costs.
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What will make accountable care organizations successful? And will they be able to succeed at all?
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NextGen Healthcare parent Quality Systems has acquired Mirth Corp., a Costa Mesa, Calif.-based health information technology company that helps clients achieve interoperability across data systems.
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PatientPoint, which provides patient and physician engagement programs at the point of care, named Dr. Geeta Nayyar chief medical information officer, effective Sept. 1.
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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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Some states are emulating Oregon, and others are following somewhat different paths to control Medicaid costs and improve quality of care for their low-income residents. Some are focusing first on payment and...
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The future of U.S. healthcare and the future of the Medical Group Management Association will be discussed by the 5,000 people expected to attend the MGMA annual conference Oct. 6-9 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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The majority of hospitals in the U.S. are struggling to transition from fee-for-service to capitated reimbursement directly tied to results. The best way to bridge that chasm is to transform the highest profile and most expensive component of most...
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Four of Ohio's healthcare powerhouses — including University Hospitals and Summa Health System — have forged an alliance designed to allow the institutions to share best practices as they brace for the health industry's dramatic shift from a system that pays hospitals for the amount of...
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As more hospitals and physicians have money on the line for healthcare quality and cost, their attempts to control costs have grown more intense and ambitious. This would be good news if the path to more effective and less costly care were clear, but it's not. That has transformed many of the...
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