Monitoring the birth of an industry
Alston & Bird LLP On October 19, 2010, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) released its draft 2011 Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) criteria for public comment. NCQA’s mission is to improve health care quality through its activities, such as accrediting and certifying health care organizations and recognizing clinicians and practices in key areas of performance. …
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The impending rise of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as market participants, and their apparent autonomy from an ‘institutional partner’ perspective, whether of the clinical or licensing (i.e., payor) variety, is no doubt raising concerns in certain sectors. Clearly the guidance to date, which enables ACO anointing absent a hospital partner is causing some hospital CEOs, and/or their parent systems, …
Gregg Masters, MPH Since we now find ourselves at the gateway of resurgent if not soon to be robust exploratory conversations between hospitals, their medical staffs, the broader private medical community and the likely joint venture entities to implement any collaborative vision, this time under the aegis of Accountable Care Organization (ACO) incentives, I thought …
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Thomas H. Lee, M.D., Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., and Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2010; 363:e23 Introduction Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicare will launch a Shared Savings Program for groups of health care providers that join forces, with or without hospitals or health plans, to …
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The Integrated Healthcare Association has released a timely and insightful White Paper titled ‘Accountable Care Organizations in California: Lessons for the National Debate on Delivery System Reform‘. California has 285 physician organizations with many of the characteristics described in the national debate, and its experiences with these organizations over the past thirty years, both positive …
Jeffrey L. Cohen In the 90s, physicians were told “The sky is falling. You have to find a tree to stand under or you will be crushed.” The “trees” were things like IPAs and PHOs. The future outlook was bleak. All patients were going to be part of some system with which the physician would …
On October 5th, 2010 the Federal Trade Commission, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General co-hosted a workshop on several issues associated with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), organizations authorized by the new Affordable Care Act that seek to deliver high-quality and efficient health care …
Mark Browne Mark Browne is an experienced physician executive working as a healthcare consultant with PYA. He can be found as @consultdoc on twitter. Last week the healthcare world was all abuzz. The federal government was set to begin the journey that every player in the marketplace has been waiting for, the road to the accountable care …
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Registration: Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 1:00 PM to 2:00PM Eastern (10:00AM – 11:00AM Pacific) Five Key Accountable Care Organization Enablers How to put these enablers in place in a range of health care settings Acquire an understanding of new ACO legislation Gain new insight in how to move to an integrated care model Considerations for …
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Ashley McKinney Fischer, Partner, McDermott Emery Will The FTC, CMS and OIG hosted a public workshop on October 5, 2010, featuring panel discussions on antitrust issues and an announcement from the FTC that it will develop antitrust safe harbors for accountable care organizations (ACOs), as well as an expedited review process for ACOs that do …
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