Even though accountable care organizations are a somewhat new care delivery model, they have made quite an impact on the world of healthcare already. New commercial ACOs are announced on a regular ...

CMMI has spent more than a decade learning which organizations consistently deliver high-value care. The next step is to let ...

Marc Bard, MD, chief innovation officer in the healthcare practice of Navigant Consulting, is the co-author of the recently published white paper, “Accountable Care Organizations and Payment Reform: ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program lets healthcare providers form or join Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to coordinate higher-quality care to Medicare beneficiaries while helping reduce costs.

ACOs entering MSSP with higher spending were consistently more likely to earn bonuses—a gap that persisted after a 2017 ...

Ray Chicoine, COO of Monarch Healthcare, a 2,500-physician independent practice organization (IPA) in Orange County, Calif., discusses Monarch’s efforts to develop an accountable care organization in ...

Decisions, decisions, decisions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Trump Administration will have its hands full making decisions about Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

ACOs, Medicare Advantage and other value-based care forms may look complex, but the bottom line is still profitability. Once upon a time, Accountable Care Organizations were going to be the knight in ...

Essential value-based care competencies include robust data analytics, a compliance approach to coding, and an understanding of what makes an ACO successful at the clinic and individual provider level ...

Though accountable care organizations have been around for more than a decade, their effectiveness at reducing healthcare costs remains a highly debated issue, prompting impassioned condemnations and ...

Ethical analysis of population health management calls for a communitarian vs individual approach, starting with reconceiving “covered lives” as “patient communities.” US health care has long sought ...

In a presentation at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 10, Andrew Hayek, president and CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates and chairman of the ...