By Vince Kuraitis This afternoon (August 23rd, 2011) CMS announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative (BPCII). For details, start reading here. Here are six quick first impressions: 1. It’s very creative and innovative. CMS has demonstrated out-of-the-box thinking and leaves a lot of room for applicants to propose their own approaches. Expect to …
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CMS Conference Call on the new ‘Bundled Payments for Care Improvement’ Initiative [Re-play]
August 23rd, 2011 – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation today announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative to help improve care for patients while they are in the hospital and after they are discharged. Doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers can now apply to participate in this new program that will …
Might There Be ‘Elephants In The Room’?
By Jeff Cohen ACOs and other new acronyms have swamped the minds of physicians and healthcare business people alike since the terms were coined. The still new healthcare reform law continues to worry many and challenge others to figure out ways to play the game and win. While we scurry around chasing the regs and …
Core ACO Health Information Infrastructure: Analytics
By John W. Loonsk, Chief Medical Officer, CGI The Accountable Care Organization draft rule is out, and the political, clinical and technical trek to establishing these lynchpins of the Affordable Care Act and health reform is on. Community physicians and hospitals are jockeying for potential shares of the incentives that will be distributed via the …
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Summer Doldrums in ‘Taming The Beast’? Hardly!
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 …
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Didn’t Take Long! Meet Essence Group Holdings Corporation an ‘ACO/PPMC 2.0′
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 …
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2nd Annual National Accountable Care Organization Summit
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 …
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ACO Summit AM Roundup
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 …
Don Berwick’s preso at 1st Accelerated Development Learning Program
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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Continued Insigthts into ACO’s: 5 Key Findings
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 …
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