Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care and Aetna are forming an accountable care organization that will go into effect in 2013.
Integration & Physician Issues
Roughly one-third of the country's physician workforce plans to retire or leave their practice in the next 10 years, according to Jackson Healthcare's Physician Practice Trends Survey 2012.
UCLA Health System is teaming up with CVS Caremark in an arrangement that makes UCLA physicians medical directors for 11 CVS MinuteClinics in Los Angeles County, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
As part of a multi-year agreement, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare will open access to healthcare services at all its hospitals and outpatient centers to Cigna-insured individuals and create clinically integrated organizations and accountable care organizations through Cigna's collaborative accountable care model,…
The Premier Healthcare Alliance has launched a bundled payment program to offer hospitals ongoing analysis, assessment and technical assistance to help in implementing bundled payment arrangements.
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The following commercial accountable care organizations or arrangements were announced since June, beginning with the most recent.
Physicians are more likely to refer patients to providers who have similar backgrounds as the referring physician, and such informal networks could have implications for structures like accountable care organizations, according to a new study.
Vanderbilt University researchers will receive a national grant to produce a tool to map and predict primary care shortage hot spots nationwide, according to a news release.
Torrington, Conn.-based Charlotte Hungerford Hospital has formed the Charlotte Hungerford Multi-Specialty Group that will include a network of two dozen physicians, surgeons and specialists, according to a Register Citizen report.
Both employed and independent physicians are beginning to take steps to prepare for pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing models. A recent American Medical News report discusses three steps for physician leaders to take when preparing for new payment models.