CIGNA has been experimenting with accountable care models in pilot studies with physicians in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Texas during the past two years. In July, the nationwide health insurer started a new pilot with Piedmont Physicians Group, a 100-member…
Integration & Physician Issues
As patient loads and provider shortages increase, many hospitals are implementing surgicalist programs to accompany the hospitalist programs that came into vogue several years ago. Here, two hospital executives who have been through a surgicalist program implementation with physician staffing…
As a result of healthcare reform law, hospitals face a bevy of regulations including payment reductions for certain readmissions as well as new demonstration and pilot projects related to more accountable care and shared payment. The regulations surrounding these projects…
In a letter to CMS, America's Health Insurance Plans, the insurers' trade group, is cautioning federal regulators against loosening antitrust and fraud regulations to accommodate accountable care organizations.
The American Hospital Association's next Town Hall Interactive webcast will focus on developing an accountable care organization, according to an AHA News Now report.
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Federal regulators are expected to release policies regarding CMS' accountable care organization demonstration project — a project created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — later this fall. One area that these policies will address is how patients…
Hospitals today are increasingly employing physicians for a variety of reasons, including the desire to gain more control over referrals and to be prepared for movement towards the accountable care model. However, some specialties are markedly more sought after than…
Rather than save money, some experts argue accountable care organizations will further inflate prices, as hospitals unite with physicians and other providers against private insurers, according to a report by the Washington Post.
Physicians are offering new payment options, networking with other physicians to boost referrals and accepting more Medicaid and uninsured patients as the uninsured population grows to top 50 million, according to an American Medical News report.
More than 100 pediatricians have decided to leave UT Medical Group to join UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists, a new joint venture between Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, according to a Daily…