There is no doubt that accountable care organizations are spreading throughout the country and different healthcare markets. In fact, according to David Muhlestein, a Leavitt Partners analyst, there are 428 commercial and Medicare ACOs spanning the country in every state…
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Including both commercial and Medicare accountable care organizations, there are 428 total organizations in 49 states as of January, according to a Health Affairs blog entry by David Muhlestein, an analyst with Leavitt Partners.
Just 32 percent of the nation's pre-med students plan to become primary care physicians after earning their medical degrees, according to a recent Kaplan Test Prep survey.
Effective March 1, Mercy, the 32-hospital system based in Chesterfield, Mo., and Hermann (Mo.) Area District Hospital will enhance physician collaboration to better treat critically ill patients in central Missouri.
Teaching hospitals in Illinois could face a reduction of medical students training in their facilities beginning in July if the state does not resolve delays in processing temporary licenses, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
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In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor; Jeffrey Flier, MD, the dean of faculty medicine at Harvard University and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, a senior research fellow…
The following stories pertain to accountable care organizations, hospital-physician relationships and population health management strategies. All were published within the past month.
More than half of the U.S. population lives in areas served by accountable care organizations, according to new analysis by Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has proposed a plan to attract physicians to the state's underserved areas by forgiving medical school debt, according to an Omaha World Herald report.
When it comes to accountable care organizations, hospitals and health systems face a lengthy checklist for infrastructure requirements. Certain items, such as licenses and electronic medical records, are concrete and quantifiable, while others are more difficult to measure. Stickiness, or…