With increased coverage and reduced reimbursements, hospital emergency departments will face a challenging time as healthcare reform unfolds. Thus, hospital and emergency medicine leaders will need to strengthen their relationship, combining both financial and clinical priorities to meet quality metrics.…
Integration & Physician Issues
Physicians are skeptical about the possibility of earning shared savings in accountable care organizations, according to a report by the American Medical News.
The Commonwealth Fund has released 10 recommendations for the effective implementation of accountable care organizations, according to its report, titled High Performance Accountable Care: Building on Success and Learning from Experience. The organization shared the following 10 recommendations for ACOs.…
Tevi Troy, former deputy secretary of HHS under George W. Bush, recently criticized the accountable care organization model through a series of jokes in an April 12 Weekly Standard report.
Integrating physicians with a hospital is becoming increasingly important as healthcare delivery shifts away from fee-for-service to those rewarding more coordinated care. One way to integrate physicians is to focus on a particular service line, such as cardiovascular services. By…
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The Red Hills Surgical Center, a joint-venture ambulatory surgery center between Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial Hospital and 35 local physicians, has opened, according to a news release from the hospital.
An accountable care organization pilot involving the California Public Employees' Retirement System, Blue Shield of California HMO, San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West and Hill Physicians Medical Group may produce $15.5 million in savings, according to a CalPERS news release.
The recently released rules for developing an accountable care organization are designed to reach the Triple Aim: improved experience of care, improved health of populations and reduced costs. While healthcare organizations may use different models of integration, payment and patient…
In an effort to achieve the efficiencies of a large physician organization, Marin Independent Physician Association in Novato, Calif., has said it will add physicians from 278-bed Santa Rosa (Calif.) Memorial Hospital and other hospitals in the area, according to…
As hospitals and large multi-specialty group practices gear up for accountable care organizations, procedure-oriented specialists are still trying to figure out their role in them.