Accountable care organizations may create financial losses for the first three years, according to a report published in New England Journal of Medicine.
Integration & Physician Issues
“Big business” hospital culture may be fostering physician mediocrity and sham peer reviews, according to a release from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. The first priority of financially-driven hospitals, according to the AAPS, “is bringing in more revenue…
Regent Surgical Health has announced it is partnering with Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital and 23 physician-partners on a new ambulatory surgery center included in a $55 million expansion of the hospital's medical campus.
A bill in the New Jersey legislature would authorize accountable care organizations for Medicaid patients in pilot projects, according to a report by NJ Spotlight.
CaroMont Health in Gastonia, N.C., and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina have created a bundled payment program for knee replacements, according to a news release.
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What is the key to a successful accountable care organization? Hospital leaders across the country are asking this question as they await the release of ACO regulations. Some say employing physicians, some electronic health records. The most likely answer, however,…
Mercy Health System and Centegra Health System have proposed plans to build hospitals less than 10 miles apart in McHenry County, Ill., according to a TribLocal report.
Healthcare reform may have accelerated what is already one of the fastest growing medical specialties in the country: hospital medicine. The specialty appeared in the early 1990s, with the term “hospitalist” coined in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine…
Emerging accountable care organizations that are focusing extensively on primary care redesign may be overlooking a part of the care continuum that may yield the greatest benefit — post-acute care. With early payment reforms targeting hospital readmissions, success in the…
A recent study by a professor of economics at the University of Zurich published in Health Affairs suggests that accountable care models could face resistance from providers and consumers if fee-for-service models remain an option.