H. Alex Hunter, a managing director at Navigant Consulting and leader of the provider practice within Navigant's Healthcare team, makes four points about hospitals' awkward transition from fee-for-service payments to the new world of accountable care organizations.
Integration & Physician Issues
Douglas A. Hastings, chairman of the board of EpsteinBeckerGreen in Washington, D.C., makes eight points on how federal antitrust laws could affect accountable care organizations.
With CMS about to release proposed rules for accountable care organizations, CMS Administrator Don Berwick, MD, spoke about planning for ACOs at the Engleberg Center for Health Care Reform on Feb. 1. Proposed rulemaking for ACOs “will be out very…
San Antonio-based Baptist Health System, part of Nashville-based Vanguard Health Systems, has acquired the Heart and Vascular Institute of Texas, according to a Baptist news release.
Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD, associate professor of health economics and policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, recently wrote an article in the New England Journal of Medicine on the challenges of keeping Medicare beneficiaries within their assigned accountable…
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A recent study by the National Institute of Health Care Reform identifies four universal challenges in developing accountable care organizations.
In healthcare, we require appointments for test results, even though we could relay them privately over phone or email. We recommend preventive care, but we don’t follow up to ensure the appointment is made or arrange transportation help. We limit…
Fall River, Mass.-based Truesdale Cardiology has joined Southcoast Physician Services, part of New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System, according to a Herald News report.
A recent report by Grant Thornton shares five considerations for hospitals and providers as they begin the process of developing an accountable care organization.
1. Louisville (Ky.) Cardiology Group has officially joined Baptist Medical Associates, Baptist Healthcare System’s physician group. 2. Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health is in discussions to acquire Cardiology Associates, a cardiology practice with six locations throughout the metro Washington, D.C.-area. The…