By Gregg A. Masters, MPH We’ve been somewhat dormant on ‘This Week in Accountable Care‘ during the summer months, but there has been no shortage of announcements with the CMS series of proscribed deadlines, as well as the purely discretionary dates associated with ACO arrangements negotiated and launched in the private aka ‘commercial’ market. Today we …
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The ‘Medicaid Expansion’ Map: Where We Stand
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Courtesy of the good peeps at The Advisory Board, aka @TheAdvisoryBd, the emerging picture of where we are going in terms of the mission critical leg of full ACA implementation, rests to a large degree with the Executive Offices of the respective states. As can be expected, there is a …
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Hospitals Back in Insurance Biz: Good News or Bad News?
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH I awoke this morning to read the following headline: Hospitals Look To Become Insurers, As Well As Providers Of Care To wit, I ‘tweeted’: OK, it’s reallly ‘deja vu’ all over again! ‘Hospitals Look To Become Insurers, As Well As Providers Of Care’ For complete original article, click here. Mind …
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Big Data, Little Information, and the ACO Big Picture
By Michael Planchart, Perficient, Inc. The Journey of a thousand miles towards an ACO begins with one step. Healthcare organizations are coming to realize that the programs stimulated by the ARRA – HITECH Act, Meaningful Use (MU) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), require something that they don’t have in sufficient quantities, the desired type or in …
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Next Round of CMS ACO Deadline Fast Approaching
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Contextualizing the competitive market uptake given the ‘muddy waters’ aka hand-wringing, hedging, side-stepping or simply the ‘sensible accumulation of more data’ before taking the plunge into the controversial, in some quarters, Medicare Shared Savings Program via an ACO, will get a tad clearer as the deadline for submitting applications to CMS …
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ACO Timeline: Key Dates and Application Process
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of July 1, 2012 89 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) began serving 1.2 million Medicare beneficiaries in 40 States and Washington, D.C. These 89 new ACOs have entered into agreements with CMS, taking responsibility for the quality of care …
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ACOs, Accountable Care and the Digital Health ‘App Market’
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH So much of the innovation metabolism witnessed today via social media and seeping into mainstream consideration, seems to be sucked up in the many, perhaps oversupplied and under utilized consumer facing ‘digital health apps’ market. We have yet to see these app driven forces of nature materially unleashed in the healthcare …
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On the ‘Epidemiology of Unicorns’ aka ACOs
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH We all love infographics, right? Well, courtesy of the good folks at The Advisory Board, aka @TheAdvisoryBd check out the updated map and associated legend to track with the incidence of certain ACO model types as they inevitably pepper the US landscape. For complete blog post, click here.
Healthcare Unbound: San Francisco July 19th & 20th 2012
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Later this month amidst the mix of keynotes, panels and breakout sessions one will find relevant content specific to ACOs, accountable care and the pursuit of the triple aim. For complete conference details click here. Two sessions of interest, include: The keynote address: The Future of Platforms and Healthcare Unbound (aka …
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Maggie Mahar, Robert Reich, Michael Cannon and Grace Marie Turner on SCOTUS ACA Ruling
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Courtesy of a tweet via Gary Levin aka @glevin1 we note the following @Google+ Hangout post SCOTUS ruling discussion. NOTE: there is a slight delay in the clip. The chat is facilitated by David Firestone aka @fstonenyt and includes an eclectic mix of the academic, think tank and ideological spectrum including Maggie Mahar, aka @Maggie Mahar, @UCBerkeley …
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