Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Iowa in Cedar Falls has partnered with Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Iowa to launch an accountable care organization.
Integration & Physician Issues
The following deals between hospitals and physicians, including acquisitions, affiliations, leasing arrangements and joint ventures, occurred within the last two months, starting with the most recent.
Many health systems behind CMS' 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations disagree with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's approach to quality measurement and are demanding changes to the Pioneer program, according to a Washington Post report.
Urology Inc., a urology practice in Fall River, Mass., has joined New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Physician Group.
The trend of hospitals and health systems acquiring physician practices and employing physicians has surged in popularity recently. The nation's ranks of independent physicians shrunk from being 57 percent of physicians in 2000 to just 39 percent in 2012 and…
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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has partnered with MissionPoint Health Partners, St. Thomas Health's accountable care organization in Nashville, Tenn., to create a product for self-funded employer groups built around the ACO.
Physician groups that publicly reported performance on quality measures were motivated to improve performance, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Primary care in the U.S. needs to be redesigned to attract new physicians and improve patient care, according to a commentary in Health Affairs.
Accountable care organization metrics, which have been developed by Medicare, commercial payors and the National Committee for Quality Assurance, can be divided into six main categories, according to a new MedeAnalytics research report.
Physicians from The Family Physicians Group PC in Memphis, Tenn., have split their health system affiliations between Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, both based in Memphis, according to a Memphis Business Journal report.