Care Coordination

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…

Health insurer Aetna and Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance — a comprehensive accountable care network comprised of more than 2,500 physicians — will begin an accountable care collaboration in Texas.

  South Arkansas Hospital in El Dorado has opened its expanded emergency department, according to a report from KTVE-KARD.

Following a July ruling barring University of Chicago Medicine from moving and adding beds, the Illinois Health Facilities Review Board has reversed its decision, according to a report from DNAinfo Chicago.

Health insurer Aetna and Phoenix-based Banner Health Network announced they achieved $5 million in shared savings through their accountable care collaboration in 2013.

Health insurer Humana and the Nebraska Health Network — an accountable care organization co-owned by Omaha, Neb.-based Methodist Health System, The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and their affiliated physicians — are forming an accountable care partnership.

San Diego-based Sharp Healthcare, which was selected as a Medicare Pioneer accountable care organization in 2011, has left the Pioneer program after determining its ACO was at risk for "significant shared loss" for performance year three.

TeleTracking is set to unveil its largest lineup of products and solutions ever at its 12th Annual Client Conference in October.