Hospitals and physicians in New Jersey's inner cities are eager to participate in the Medicaid accountable care organization program and plan to pursue it aggressively once the state legislation earns federal approval, according to an NJ Spotlight report.
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Pittsburgh-based Highmark, an insurer, will spend up to $500 million on a new network of physicians, community hospitals and outpatient care locations — an investment in addition to its $475 million takeover of West Penn Allegheny Health System, according to…
A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care confirms previous research suggesting hospitalists can help reduce hospital lengths of stay.
This past December, Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health — the largest independent non-profit physician group in Massachusetts — was officially selected as a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization. In an effort to change the way patients and costs are managed in the…
Forty-five percent of physicians in small- or medium-sized practices say their practice is doing better this year compared to last, according to a new survey from Practice Fusion.
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Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System has submitted its accountable care organization application to CMS, hoping to make its commercial ACO model work for the federal program, according to an NJBIZ report.
The rate at which physicians referred patients to another physician — most often a specialist — has nearly doubled from 1999-2009, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Hospital-physician relationships were a prevalent topic at Huron Healthcare's most recent CEO forum, and healthcare CEOs from across the country offered the following thoughts on their strategies to form ties with physicians.
Donald Berwick, MD, recently said the "edgy and promising design" of accountable care organizations will work because of the focus on transparency, coordination, consumer power and intolerance of waste, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Chandler Regional Medical Center in Chandler, Ariz., has collaborated with Barrow Neurosurgical Associates of Phoenix, to offer patients neurosurgical services, according to a Chandler Regional Medical Center news release (pdf).