Rapid accountable care organization developments may offset the model’s intended benefits and reap problems with transparency, market power and higher prices for private sector consumers, according to a letter from the Pacific Business Group on Health — an organization representing…
Integration & Physician Issues
The following acquisitions or mergers took place within the past two weeks, beginning with the most recent. 1. Oregon Medical Group, a multi-specialty group with more than 100 physicians based in Eugene, parted ways with Community Health Systems and returned…
Oregon Medical Group, a multi-specialty group with more than 100 physicians based in Eugene, has parted ways with Community Health Systems and returned to independent ownership, according to a Register-Guard report. The group had been part of Nashville, Tenn.-based CHS…
The Integrated Healthcare Association has been awarded a three-year, $2.9 million grant by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to demonstrate bundled payments for physicians, hospitals and other providers and to evaluate their effectiveness compared to current payment methods…
Although CMS' regulations for accountable care organizations have not yet been released, it is believed by some that the regulations will favor larger ACOs over smaller ones, according to a report by Crain's Detroit Business.
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Tucson, Ariz.-based Carondelet Health Network subsidiary Carondelet Specialist Group has acquired six-physician Southwest Heart, according to a Carondelet news release.
In a letter to the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, nine senators urged the two antitrust enforcement agencies to share jurisdiction over accountable care organizations, according to a report by AHA News Now.
SwedishAmerican Health System has acquired the Lundholm Surgical Group, which will be renamed SwedishAmerican Medical Group/Lundholm Orthopedics, according to a health system news release.
The delay in accountable care organization regulations has not stopped health systems in the state of Michigan from forming ACOs, according to a Crain’s Detroit Business report. Some of the ACOs forming in Southeast Michigan may not survive as independent…
Dearborn, Mich.-based United Outstanding Physicians, a physician organization with more than 1,000 physicians, has launched an accountable care organization, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.