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 ...

Orange County’s larger hospital groups are continuing to dip their toes into the waters of accountable-care organizations. Such structures bring hospitals, insurers and doctors’ groups together in an ...

Authors’ annual update on ACO growth. After years of steady ACO growth, our last several ACO tracking updates have shown plateaus or slight declines. But looking forward, they forecast the following: ...

Sound Long-Term Care Management (SLTCM), an accountable care organization (ACO) within Sound Physicians, is inviting clinical ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program, a value-based care purchasing initiative that aims to link provider payments to cost and quality, saved Medicare $1.8 billion last year, according to the CMS. That ...

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Building on feedback and experience from prior models, LEAD aims to reduce barriers to success for both new and experienced ACOs through several innovative payment mechanisms. ACOs can respond to LEAD ...

Many healthcare leaders are strategizing to meet the requirements of section3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This historic passage of legislation to reform our nation’s ...

Managed care organization Health Net Inc. said this week that it has formed an accountable care organization with John Muir Health, bringing together a network of medical centers and physicians 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 ...

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 ...

The decision to pursue surgery in patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias is challenging. Accountable care organizations may influence decisions to pursue surgery in this population.