The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should consider allowing Track 1, 2, and 3 accountable care organizations (ACOs) to participate in cardiac and comprehensive joint replacement...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are relatively new patient care models that can operate with either public or private health payers. Initially, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
The latest news from the Medicare Shared Savings Program and its associated accountable care organizations shows that some goals of the project have been gained such as ongoing cost savings and quality...
Within the new value-based care payment strategies being developed among healthcare providers, payers, and government agencies, accountable care organizations (ACOs) continue playing an important role...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week the quality and financial results of the 2015 Medicare accountable care organizations. According to a press release from CMS,...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act isn’t merely responsible for creating health insurance exchanges, eliminating pre-existing conditions or even expanding the Medicaid program. The...
With fairly large sects of the political spectrum opposing various provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as many as six years after its passage, it grows vital to examine whether...
Health payers and providers who are seeking to form accountable care organizations will need to follow key steps in order to avoid the issues associated with these payment models and truly succeed in...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are slowly becoming a mainstay of the healthcare industry, as more payers and providers are partnering through these care coordination programs and negotiating...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have taken on a larger role in delivering services throughout the continuum of care. Initially, these establishments were created under the Medicare Shared Savings...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) continue to gain greater acknowledgement within the healthcare industry as the field transitions to value-based care reimbursement and moves away from the...
As previously reported, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have finalized a ruling that changes how the Medicare Shared Savings Program operates its payment protocols among...
Is lower healthcare spending truly tied to improved quality of care among hospitals? New research published in Health Affairs begs to differ when it comes to rewarding lower quality hospitals that...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are provider and payer arrangements established to improve care coordination between primary care physicians, hospitals, specialists, and public or private health payers.
The Centers for Medicare...
Do accountable care organizations (ACOs) truly save costs for the healthcare industry? Or is forming an ACO in hopes of cutting spending a pipe dream? Last year’s results from the Medicare Shared...
Payers and providers looking to operate through an accountable care organization (ACO) will need to adhere strictly to state and federal laws regarding the development of this model of care....
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act led to the development of the Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center, which eventually brought the creation of accountable care organizations...
Did you know that between the years 1975 to 1985, average annual Medicare spending for each beneficiary rose from $472 to $1,579? This is an increase of 12.8 percent per year, according to The...
As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, goals of improving the quality of healthcare services and reducing costs led to the creation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the...
