Oregon is taking a new approach to accountable care organizations in two ways: by calling them coordinated care organizations and by grading them, according to a Kaiser Health News report. One component of the grading process will be patients’ body…
Integration & Physician Issues
The Department of Health and Human Services has released its final rule for accountable care organizations, according to an HHS release. CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, said the more than 1,300 comments received after the proposed rule were taken into…
Forty-six percent of physician practices do not meet national standards to qualify as “medical homes,” or practices able to manage ongoing care for patients and coordinate care among specialists and other healthcare facilities, according to a news release from the…
With the final rule for accountable care organizations expected any day now, U.S. Congressman Michael Burgess, MD, has said he hopes CMS “completely scraps the approach taken in the proposed rule,” according to a report from The Hill. Rep. Burgess…
Physicians may complicate lawmakers’ plans to encourage global payments in Massachusetts since only 42 percent of physicians in the state are likely to participate in voluntary global payment systems, according to the 2011 Massachusetts Medical Society Physicians Workforce Study. Lawmakers…
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AtlantiCare, based in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., is launching its own accountable care organization and plans to enroll groups of people in 2012, according to a system news release. The ACO will be called AtlantiCare Health Solutions and it will…
Blue Shield of California has distributed nearly $20 million in grants to 18 California hospitals, health systems, clinics and physician groups to help them participate more effectively in accountable care organizations.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine has acquired Maryland Heart PC, a 17-physician cardiology practice, according to a Washington Business Journal report.
The Office of Inspector General will study the impact of physicians opting out of Medicare as part of its Work Plan for fiscal year 2012.
The HHS Office of Inspector General has requested a subpoena to examine contracts between Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System and Chattanooga Heart Institute, according to a Chattanooga Times Free Press report.