The following article is written by Bo Hjorth, vice president business development for Regent Surgical Health. Hospitals and physicians are both struggling with challenges related to competition, reform and the economy that are difficult to tackle on their own, but…
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St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis has entered into an agreement to employ physicians from The Heart Specialty Associates, also in St. Louis, to create The Heart Specialty Center at St. Anthony's Medical Center, according to a news release…
Ralph de la Torre, CEO of Massachusetts-based Steward Health Care System, discussed his plans for accountable care organizations in a recent Boston Globe profile. Mr. de la Torre said Steward, the for-profit parent company of Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care,…
Letters from an influential Republican member of the Federal Trade Commission to the White House and CMS suggest a struggle between the FTC and Department of Justice to compromise on antitrust issues surrounding accountable care organizations, according to the New…
More than 50 physicians with Oakland Physician Professional Management Group will offer advice to St. John Macomb-Oakland-Hospital, Oakland Center in Madison Heights, Mich., under a two-year management agreement, according to an American Medical News report. While co-management agreements between physician…
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The following is an excerpt from a complete white paper by Singletrack Analytics on analytics for ACOs. The download the entire whitepaper, click here (pdf).With the passage of the health reform legislation, many healthcare organizations are rapidly planning to form…
Officials from Johns Hopkins have released information on the cultural barriers and financial considerations for other academic medical centers in the establishment of accountable care organizations in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. AMCs face considerable…
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.
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…