Monitoring the birth of an industry
By Ron Klar Certainly no Medicare provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has generated more interest among health care providers, policy analysts, and consultants than the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) for accountable care organizations (ACOs). Because there are so many design elements for which the Secretary of Health and Human Services must “determine”, …
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By Jaan E. Sidorov, MD, MHSA, FACP After a second and equally rewarding day at the Opal Summit, the Disease Management Care Blog has decamped from Austin Hyatt Hotel venue armed with additional Accountable Care Organization insights. In yesterday’s post, the DMCB mentioned that it discovered there already are a host of ACO-like legal organizations …
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by Reed Tinsley, CPA Section 3022 of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (the Act) creates the Shared Savings Program for Medicare. Under the Shared Savings Program, which is to take effect no later than Jan. 1, 2012, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that meet certain requirements established by the Secretary of Health and Human …
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By Jaan E. Sidorov, MD, MHSA, FACP The folks at Advocate Physician Partners (APP) argue that they’re a national model for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) wannabes. They’re saying that because they assert that they’ve figured how to out how to “Integrate Independent Physicians.” The intrigued Disease Management Care Blog first got a close look at …
Medicare “Accountable Care Organizations” | Shared Savings Program | New Section 1899 of Title XVIII | Preliminary Questions & Answers The Affordable Care Act (ACA) improves the health care delivery system through incentives to enhance quality, improve beneficiary outcomes and increase value of care. One of these key delivery system reforms is the encouragement of Accountable Care …
by Jenny Gold As the House begins debate today on an effort to repeal the health care law, we took a closer look at one of the provisions of the law that health care providers are talking about the most — accountable care organizations. ACOs take up only seven pages of the massive new health …
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Noted health care analyst, thought leader and blogger to discuss the employer’s interest in ACO development. On the Wednesday, January 19th 2011 program at 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern, my guest commentator is thought leader, nationally known blogger, health care analyst, business development consultant, writer and speaker on health care cost and quality issues Brian …
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On the Wednesday, January 5th 2011 broadcast ACO 101: A Physician Primer at 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern, my guest commentator and co-host is consultant, health innovation thought leader, and blogger, Mark Browne, MD of Pershing Yoakley & Associates, aka @consultdoc on Twitter. While on the front end of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid rule making …
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By Ian Morrison The accountable care organization is like a unicorn, a fantastic creature that is vested with mythical powers. But no one has actually seen one. I have re-blogged and re-tweeted (twitter@seccurve) this so often that I received all the credit for the line. Welcome to the Internet age. But in all fairness to …
NEJM | November 10, 2010 | Topics: Accountable Care Organizations, Reform Implementation Robert Kocher, M.D., and Nikhil R. Sahni, B.S. Enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was a historic event. Along with the Recovery Act, the ACA will usher in the most extensive changes in the U.S. health care system since the creation of Medicare …
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