One of the greatest challenges for accountable care organizations will be building efficient, high-quality provider networks. Buck Consultants in Atlanta, which has been helping health insurers build provider networks, is now beginning to do the same work for ACOs.
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As the healthcare industry awaits regulations on accountable care organizations, study findings suggest ACOs may be able to achieve desired healthcare outcomes and savings without a hospital partner, according to research published in the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management.
Here are 10 providers that have recently formed accountable care organizations, beginning with the most recent.
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, Commonwealth Fund and Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice have released a consensus report on how to develop medical homes and accountable care organizations, according to a news release.
Sometime between now and their seven-page inclusion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, accountable care organizations have been pinned as the unicorns of healthcare. Providers may be familiar with the concept, but many have not yet seen an…
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The long-waited proposed regulations on accountable care organizations are expected to run more than 1,000 pages long, according to a report by Politico.
Texas’ Senate State Affairs committee has unanimously approved a bill to give rural hospitals an exemption from the state’s “corporate practice of medicine law,” which does not allow physicians to work directly for a hospital or any other corporation, according…
Accountable care organizations may still be clouded with uncertainty, but one facet of the model is becoming clearer: redefined relationships between hospitals and physicians. Shifting from the tense environment of the 1990s, hospitals and physicians are now looking to one…
Massachusetts would encourage healthcare providers to form accountable care organizations under a new cost-containment plan proposed by Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, according to a report by the American Medical News.
Atrius Health in Newton, Mass., which has functioned like an accountable care organization for several decades, offered some pointers on ACO operations in a report in the Wall Street Journal. An alliance of five medical groups with more than 800…