All 32 members of Medicare's Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model improved quality and patient satisfaction in their first performance year, but not all achieved savings, according to data released by CMS.
Care Coordination
LifePoint Hospitals, based in Brentwood, Tenn., has announced the creation of a National Physician Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance to the company on efforts related to enhanced clinical quality, physician engagement and innovative models of healthcare delivery.
Oklahoma's Medicaid program has had its fair share of issues, similar to many other state Medicaid programs. SoonerCare, as it is known, was facing increasing costs and had been ranked 49 out of all 50 states for clinical performance measures.…
Cigna has launched new collaborative accountable care initiatives, the payer's version of accountable care organizations, with physicians affiliated with two different organizations in Tucson: Arizona Community Physicians and Arizona Connected Care
UnitedHealthcare, the Minnetonka, Minn.-based health insurer subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, said it plans to more than double its accountable care health plan contracts with hospitals and physicians by 2017.
Advertisement
Accountable care organizations can generate medical and drug cost savings of at least 12 percent for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, according to a Decision Resources report.
Wichita, Kan.-based Via Christi Health has applied to become a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.
The National Governors Association announced that six states will participate in a new program to help health systems ensure better provision of services for super-utilizers — patients who frequently use the emergency room, hospital inpatient services and other high-cost forms…
Aetna has announced a new accountable care agreement with New Haven (Conn.) Community Medical Group, an integrated network of 591 care providers.
"If you build it, they will come" may be true in the field of baseball, but not necessarily in healthcare. Increasingly, if you build a hospital, people won't come — not until they're really sick. No surprise. These days, patients…