HHS appointed a group of national experts to the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee, which was established by the 21st Century Cures Act.
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According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), of the 480 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs only 30 percent earned shared savings of any amount in 2015.1
As many as 63 million Americans, or nearly a fifth of the United States, were exposed to potentially unsafe drinking water during the past 10 years, according to USA Today, which cited the findings from a News21 investigation.
Healthcare Solutions Network is an ACO that formed in 2014 from a partnership between Cincinnati-based health systems TriHealth and St. Elizabeth Healthcare.
The Louisville, Ky., city government, a respiratory health startup called Propeller and the Institute for Healthy Air, Water and Soil joined forces in 2015 to address asthma care in the region, CityLab reports.
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Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare uses two types of value-based contracts, but Lee Newcomer, MD, senior vice president of oncology and genetics at the insurer, told AJMC one outperforms the other.
A team of researchers at Indianapolis-based Indiana University School of Medicine have found a link between blood biomarkers and suicide risk, according to a study published in Molecular Psychiatry.
A power outage at Opelika-based East Alabama Medical Center caused the hospital to redirect its ambulance and emergency room services for over an hour Monday night, according to oanow.com.
Bethesda, Md.-based Aledade, a value-based care network with 15 ACOs, is slated to form a primary care physician-led ACO in New Jersey in January 2018.
Boca Raton, Fla.-based Cancer Treatment Centers of America and Foundation Medicine, a molecular information company, will expand their partnership to develop an educational initiative on precision medicine in oncology.