Care Coordination

Dover, N.H.-based Wentworth-DouglasHospital and Southern New Hampshire Health System in Nashua have joined Concord (N.H.) Hospital and Manchester, N.H.-based Elliot Hospital in an accountable care organization.

What kind of patients show up in your emergency department? Leana Wen, MD, an emergency physician at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. has created a Slate-published categorization of the types of patients that, in her experience, show up in…

Florida Blue and Miami-based Baptist Health Quality Network have announced a new accountable care agreement.

Florida Blue and Lake Worth, Fla.-based Medical Specialists of Palm Beach have announced they have expanded their collaborative care agreement to Palm Beach County.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield in New Jersey and Hackensack-Physician Hospital Alliance, Hackensack (N.J) University Medical Center's accountable care organization, have announced the launch of a new collaborative accountable care agreement.

UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield and Humana, four of the country's largest private payers, will be ready for the ICD-10 transition come Oct. 1, according to a survey conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

As the 2014 open enrollment period draws to a close, the federal government and some states are working to get uninsured Americans signed up for coverage offered through the health insurance exchanges.

Whether or not health insurance exchange enrollment under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act hits 6 million by the end of this month depends on 10 states, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

Two-thirds of Americans say they're satisfied with the U.S. healthcare system today, according to a recent Gallup poll.

The Physician Organization of Michigan ACO, a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization formed as a joint venture between the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor and eight physician groups, has added more than 2,900 physicians to…