Monitoring the birth of an industry
Kevin Fickenscher, M.D. A brief overview of one of the most discussed questions in healthcare today. In the great healthcare alphabet soup, it’s easy to lose sight of the differences between proposed solutions for making healthcare more efficient and effective. Rather than tackling payment reform in isolation of care delivery, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and …
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The inaugural meeting of the National Accountable Care Congress ‘ACO Congress‘ to meet in Century City, California, October 25 – 27th, 2010. The ACO Congress represents itself as ‘the leading forum on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and related delivery system and payment reform’, and will feature over 50 sessions, and a faculty of over 100 …
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Don Berwick kicked off the day-long Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Workshop and Listening Session, co-hosted by the FTC, CMS and the OIG, with a short, stirring speech that touched on his Triple Aim for health care: better care for individuals, better health for populations and reduced per-capita costs. He committed the government to interpreting applicable statutes “wisely, …
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With the March 2010 passage of the ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the ‘follow the money’ floodgates are once again opening for hospitals, physicians, integrated delivery systems, health plans, and consultants. This time, instead of migrating ‘HMO lite’ (neither staff nor group model) platforms into mainstream medicine via IPAs, or MeSH model JV’s, …
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