Health insurer Florida Blue and Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care are forming an accountable care organization aimed at improving quality of care and cutting healthcare costs for patients in northwest Florida.
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To date, experience has shown that ACOs need tools to succeed, including comprehensive EHR systems, a method to identify patients who need specialized care, data to help providers manage patient care, networks that support the delivery of care and educational…
Health insurer Aetna and New York-based Weill Cornell Physicians have entered into an accountable care agreement aimed at improving health outcomes for roughly 9,000 of Aetna's commercial and Medicare members in New York.
St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa., and 250 affiliated physicians have formed an accountable care organization that is participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, according to a report by the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health Partners — a physician-hospital organization — and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio are launching a commercial accountable care organization in central Ohio.
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Here are 10 stories on shared savings and accountable care organizations, gathered from Becker's Hospital Review.
If a patient has had a fever for a few days, he or she needs to get to the hospital, but does that patient really need to get there via ambulance? This is the question that drove one physician-emergency rescue…
VHA has announced St. Louis-based BJC Healthcare has joined Mid-America Service Solutions, a consolidated service center in VHA SupplyNetworks.
Chronically ill patients who are cared for in a patient-centered medical home model visit the emergency department less frequently, according to a study authored by Independence Blue Cross and CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services.
Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital and 50 primary care physicians from the hospital's medical staff have agreed to join Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization — which became a Medicare Shared Savings program participant at the beginning of 2014 — according to a…