Monitoring the birth of an industry
We’ve been on somewhat of a ‘hiatus’ from the health reform, accountable care and health care enterprise organizational and market positioning conversation, yet the industry is not standing still. A few notable announcements will highlight some of the quiet if not ‘semi-stealth’ movement underway while the CMS/provider community regulatory fermentation process plays out. Congrats to …
Continue reading “Summer Doldrums in ‘Taming The Beast’? Hardly!”
Not long after the post ‘Waiting on ACOcor‘ did I learn of the company Essence Group Holdings Corporation via a Tweet on Thursday, July 2oth, 2011 by @KHNews: Leading Venture Capitalists Place A Bet On #ACOs including EGHC One of the ‘leading VC’s’ referenced in this case happens to include ‘In Search of the Next Big Idea’, Kleiner …
Continue reading “Didn’t Take Long! Meet Essence Group Holdings Corporation an ‘ACO/PPMC 2.0′”
Some of you with an event horizon a tad longer than the recent focus on social media, web 2.0 or health 2.0 energizing innovation in healthcare may recall the by-gone era of physician practice management companies, aka ‘PPMCs.’ The PPMC industry witnessed roughly a 10+ year run (circa 1990s – 2000s) with cheerleaders on Wall …
Moderator: Barbara Cebuhar, June 7, 2011, 12:00PM, Eastern Time Operator: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my name is (Shawn) and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Pioneer ACO Special Open Door Forum Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent …
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By Gunter Wessels, Partner, TIGI Delivering advisory services to healthcare organizations across the vertical in the US and internationally has focused our analysis of the proposed ACO rule in a bit of a different way. We’re looking at the practical commercialization implications of an array of potential and likely outcomes of ACO-based healthcare delivery transformation. …
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Remarks as prepared for delivery by Secretary Sebelius on June 27th, 2011, Washington, DC. Thank you, Mark, for that kind introduction. Few people have done as much to improve America’s health and health care as Mark has over the last decade. Every day, we build on the foundation he left at CMS. And I’m especially grateful …
Continue reading “2nd Annual National Accountable Care Organization Summit”
We always feel a tad behind the power curve here on the West coast when events begin in the ‘ET’ AM zone circa, in Todd Park’s vernacular, ‘…..at 0 dark hundred.’ Such is the case for the 2nd National ACO Summit which has convened in Washington DC today with many of the names we’ve come …
On June 20th through the 22nd, 2011 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) held the first of its ‘ACO Accelerated Development Learning Sessions (ADLS)’. The sessions are ‘to provide the executive leadership teams from existing or emerging ACO entities the opportunity to learn about essential ACO functions and ways to build capacity needed …
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By Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review 1. Approximately 40 percent of healthcare administrators and physicians say physician-staffing alignment is the biggest challenge with accountable care organizations. A June survey based on 882 responses found 40 percent attributing delayed progress towards ACOs to alignment. After physician and staff alignment, 31.4 percent of respondents attributed the delay …
Continue reading “Continued Insigthts into ACO’s: 5 Key Findings”
Listening in and tweeting about the CMS Days 1 & 2 (partial only) ‘Accelerated Learning Program’ yesterday and today, I am struck by the candor and willingness of CMS to both acknowledge & signal their intentions to work with the provider (both institutional and professional) and payor communities. As noted today by Rick Gilfillan, MD, …
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