Monitoring the birth of an industry
By Vince Kuraitis Zeke Emanuel’s editorial in the New York Times — The End of Health Insurance Companies — really got my blood boiling. It’s irresponsible and naive. Former Obama advisor Emanuel “predicts”: By 2020, the American health insurance industry will be extinct. Insurance companies will be replaced by accountable care organizations — groups of …
Continue reading “Rebuttal and Comment to ‘NYT Op Ed: Emanuel Editorial is Irresponsible and Naive’”
A Case Study in the Brookings–Dartmouth ACO Pilot Program This case study examines the progress that Monarch HealthCare, a physician led independent practice association in Orange County, California, has made in its efforts to become accountable for the quality and overall cost of care for its patient population. Monarch HealthCare is one of the provider …
Continue reading “Monarch HealthCare: Leveraging Expertise in Population Health Management”
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH TweetReach for #ACOchat – Demonstrating the ‘digital footprint’ of a real time healthcare focused social media ‘conversation…. Reached 20,760 peeps via the last 50 tweets….Exposure: 180,892 Impressions Tweet Types Each pie slice shows how many people saw how many tweets and the impressions generated via the 8 Tweeps participating below…. for real time …
By Joseph F. Damore and Barbara Gray As finance leaders consider whether to apply to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, they should evaluate the application of accountable care principles to six other markets for value-based contracting. When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued proposed regulations for Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), it refocused …
Continue reading “Markets, Metrics, Maturity and ACO Model: 6 Market Types”
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Powerful comments, insights and commentary by a visionary leader at United HealthGroup offered at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. While Dr. Tuckson spoke of ‘population management’ and an ‘all in’ commitment to ultimately tame and redesign a delivery and finance system that works, the gist …
Continue reading “ACO’s Surface at CES 2012 via Comments from United HealthGroup’s Reed Tuckson, MD”
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Some time ago a fellow healthtweep and colleague authored a post on his blog titled ACOs are STUPID. When I saw the title, I snickered thinking to myself here’s another cute sound byte in the then emerging chorus of ideological snipers taking aim at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …
Continue reading “Are ACOs ‘SMART’ or STUPID’? A Conversation with Jeffrey L. Cohen, Esq.”
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Today’s post comes to mind via a Tweet this morning courtesy of @CraigJCasey who proferred: @2healthguru @pfanderson Occupy common sense, like Don Berwick – confirms Medicare wasting 20-30%!! Go big government, single payer This Tweet is timely mindfulness and context for the wounded politico’s and their aligned think tanks who while not …
Continue reading “Health Plans: The Weakest Link in the Value Proposition?”
On the Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 broadcast at 11AM PT / 2PM ET my special guests include two principal co-authors of the recently released Leavitt Partners study titled: Growth and Dispersion of Accountable Care Organizations‘. For an extract and link to download the full report, click here. More about the guests: Andrew Croshaw is Managing …
Continue reading “Leavitt Partners Report: ACOs, Their Growth and Dispersion”
Extract Only: Following the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s emphasis on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the announcement of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, an increased interest has emerged among providers and payers to create ACOs. To date, little has been published regarding the types and locations of organizations adopting principles of accountable care. …
Continue reading “Leavitt Partners: Growth and Dispersion of Accountable Care Organizations”
Reprinted in portion below: Berwick’s resignation a signal of a faulty political system via Healthcare Finance News by Stephanie Bouchard WASHINGTON – It came as a surprise to no one that Donald Berwick, MD, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, would not be carrying on in the position once his term ended on …
Continue reading “Berwick v. Hatch, Enzi & the Gang of 42. Lunatics 1, America 0”
acowatch.me 