In a new study, researchers suggest ACOs are not helping CMS save substantial amounts of money as they were expected to do, so the model should be eliminated. But other experts in the industry disagree, taking issue with the study's methods and conclusions.
Aledade, a health IT company founded by former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari, raised $64 million in funding. Aledade operates ACOs with more than 550 independent physician practices.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The key for ACO success this new year and in the coming years, based on the experience of high-performing organizations, is to focus on the basics of patient and physician engagement.
In early February, Saint Francis Healthcare Partners unveiled it chose Orion Health's Amadeus precision medicine platform.
Both sides in the Obamacare debate have valid points. They also are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Under the new deal, the insurer will establish an office in the San Francisco area for OptumLabs. The two organizations want to use this California office to lure young data scientists into the medical field rather than lose them to game developers or social media in Silicon Valley.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The culprit, in Mostashari's view, was the Federation of American Hospitals, representing for-profit hospital companies.
Still, 190 of participating Medicare ACOs — 49 percent — did not generate any savings in 2015, CMS said.
Accountable care is supposed to be about paying for value. But six years after passage of the Affordable Care Act heralded the shift away from fee-for-service, Dr. Greg Carroll, corporate clinical leader of GOHealth Urgent Care, has an important question: "Where's the value?"
Rural hospitals have been particularly hard hit in the states that did not expand Medicaid coverage to more citizens.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
An IRS report last week added to industry-watchers’ suspicions that obtaining tax-exempt status will be an uphill battle for ACOs that do not participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
Payer, provider or PayVider?
The ACO will cover more than 1,100 Children's Hospital of Philadephia physicians who care for Aetna commercial plan members up to age 19 in the greater Philadelphia area.
Erica Galvez, who led development of the federal government's Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, has rejoined a former boss in the private sector.
The Geisinger Health System empire is bringing its model of value-based care to the Atlantic City area.