A recent report from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement titled "ACOs: A Step in the Right Direction" has made three recommendations on how the ACO model can be improved.
Care Coordination
Premier Patient Health Care, an accountable care organization, and Encompass Home Health & Hospice, both based in Dallas, have formed an accountable care partnership.
The following is a roundup of accountable care organizations or collaborative care agreements that were reported within the last two weeks.
Centegra Health & Wellness Network — an association of primary care physicians and specialists — has chosen value-based care solutions provider Valence Health to support its clinically integrated network.
Aetna and Cincinnati, Ohio-based Mercy Health have announced they are forming an accountable care organization, which will be Aetna's first commercial ACO in the Cincinnati area.
Advertisement
Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT Geisinger model of Advanced Medical Home as a foundation for successful population health management Agenda includes:1. Explore primary care as a foundation of population health improvement2. Discuss key components of…
Boeing selected two Seattle-based accountable care organizations — one affiliated with Providence Health & Services and Swedish Health Services, the other with UW Medicine —for its new Preferred Partnership option for employees.
Al Naqvi — CFO and executive vice president of Decatur, Ill.-based Illinois Health & Science, the nonprofit holding company of Decatur Memorial Hospital and several other assets — has experience with financial management, behavioral finance, investment banking and technology.
Two years after launching a Pioneer accountable care organization to serve Medicare patients, Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has exceeded expectations in some areas. But in others, the organization has found that transitioning is a longer, more complex process than it…
As healthcare moves toward accountable care models where providers are the risk-bearing entities, activating and engaging patients to improve their health and adhere to their treatment plan is key to the patient-centered organization's success.