Medicare payments to ambulatory surgical centers increased by an annual average of 3.8 percent between 2006 and 2013, according to a Medicare report containing information on Medicare-certified ASCs.
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Irvine, Calif.-based St. Joseph Hoag Health and Orange, Calif.-based Children's Hospital of Orange County are forming an accountable care organization.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | 1:15 – 2:15 PM CDT Perhaps nothing has been so ignored in the push for healthcare reform, as the need to prepare and position physicians to succeed – to succeed in their careers in the face…
By next year, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois plans to have 16 accountable care organizations in place, meaning one in six of its enrollees will be assigned to an ACO, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement launched a new educational program for healthcare executives working on population management.
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52 critical statistics on the state of hospital capacity.
A recent report from Dallas-based Parks Associates, a market research and consulting company, has found the number of lives covered by accountable care organizations will increase from 40 million in 2015 to over 130 million by 2017.
San Francisco-based UCSF Medical Center and John Muir Health in Walnut Creek, Calif., have signed a letter of intent to develop a company that will serve as the funding vehicle of a joint initiative to invest with other healthcare providers to create…
During a recent Brookings Institute webinar, Greger Vigen, a health actuary, highlighted some of the components of a successful accountable care organization and provided the tools those organizations use to achieve their results.
The combination of increasing patient volumes and the transition to an electronic medical record system was taking its toll on the emergency department at Doctor's Hospital of Manteca (Calif.), so they called in for help, according to an EmCare case…