The California Association of Physician Groups is endorsing CMS' new plans to allow formation of new Pioneer accountable care organizations for more highly integrated organizations, according to a release by CAPG.
Integration & Physician Issues
The three hospitals within Long Island, N.Y.-based East End Health Alliance have established a new physician hospital organization, according to an EEHA news release. Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead and Southampton (N.Y.) Hospital…
University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., is designating $15 million towards the acquisition of physician practices, according to an Augusta Chronicle report. The 612-bed hospital, part of University Health Care System, is planning a “first wave” purchase of 30 physicians specializing…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the creation of so-called “Pioneer ACOs” on May 17 in an attempt to blunt heavy criticism over the draft regulations on Accountable Care Organizations issued on March 31, 2011. The draft regulations…
Since its announcement on Tuesday, CMS has released few documents outlining how its new Pioneer accountable care organizations would work or exactly how proposed advanced payments for ACOs would be formulated and distributed. Here is what is known so far.
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As hospitals and other providers begin to have second thoughts about accountable are organizations under Medicare, similar arrangements being organized by private payors are beginning to look like a better alternative, says Rob Parke, a principal and consulting actuary with…
Accountable. Care. Organizations. Together, the words comprise one of the most pressing provisions of healthcare reform. When learning about and considering developing ACOs, however, providers may focus on one word of the term more heartily than the other two. The…
CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, said the new accountable care organization initiatives CMS recently announced were not prompted by widespread concerns that proposed ACO rules would be unworkable, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.
The New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative is receiving a grant to bolster a five-year project in which the Initiative will turn groups of hospitals and other healthcare facilities into accountable care organizations, according to a Boston Globe report. The $250,000…
Mary Barber, vice president of Cejka Search, a physician-search firm based in St. Louis, cites three reasons why hospitals are increasingly looking to hire physicians. According to Ms. Barber, hospitals may benefit from using a physician search firm for assistance…