Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...
When hospitals and health systems make the move to accountable care payment models, the transition can seem daunting. After all, the concept is less than 10 years old. Many organizations may want to ...
Thousands of Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare will soon be able to get care through a unique local business that's intended to contain spiraling medical costs by giving patients more ...
One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...
A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine–Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University School of Public Health finds that how ...
"These results reflect the dedication of our team and prove that when care is coordinated and built on trusted relationships, patients experience better outcomes and the system spends less," said ...
As the post-acute care industry continues transitioning towards a value-based care system, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) should start to consider participating in an Accountable Care Organization ...
The Biden administration has finalized a rule targeting fraudulent billing in Medicare’s largest value-based care program, after concerning reports of spiking spending on urinary catheters. The ...
Although all authors completed the disclosure declaration, the following author(s) and/or an author's immediate family member(s) indicated a financial or other interest that is relevant to the subject ...
John Henley, MD, is medical director of the Fayetteville (N.C.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, which has 11 ORs and three treatment centers. He also sits on the board of 637-bed Cape Fear Valley Medical ...
In a recent blog entry I expressed my reservations regarding the expectations that accountable care organizations (ACOs) will provide a meaningful reduction in the rate of increase in healthcare costs ...
The authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination ...