University of Minnesota cardiologists and Minnesota Heart Clinic have agreed to merge to create a heart practice to rival the area's top heart program — 55-physician Minneapolis Heart Institute at Allina's Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, according to a Star…
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An affiliate of Franklin-Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has acquired Lakeland, Fla.-based Advantage Home Health Services, according to a Ledger report.
The Federal Trade Commission recently held a listening session with stakeholders on possible ways to change antitrust enforcement to allow accountable care organizations to bring together competing organizations. Here Axel Bernabe and Ankur Kapoor, healthcare antitrust attorneys and partners in…
While hospitals and physicians' views on accountable care organizations are well known, six other healthcare sectors shared their views on how ACOs would affect them during the federal agencies' Oct. 5 listening session on ACO regulations, according to a report…
Under an unusual bundled payment arrangement, home improvement retailer Lowe's is flying employees who need heart surgery to Ohio, where the Cleveland Clinic treats them in exchange for a bundled payment. Michael McMillan, director of market and network services at…
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Allowing relatively small ACOs would enhance competition, but ACOs that are too small cannot be viable. At an Oct. 5 listening session on accountable care organizations, FTC representatives asked for feedback from a panel of stakeholders on how small ACOs…
At an Oct. 5 listening session on antitrust enforcement for accountable care organizations, FTC representatives asked a panel of stakeholders what financial incentives should ACOs work under in order to be granted antitrust waivers.
Cardiologists may have to quickly assess whether and how to align themselves with ACOs, said Steven Lieberman, formerly assistant director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and executive associate director of the Congressional Budget Office at MedAxiom's…
At an Oct. 5 listening session on antitrust enforcement for accountable care organizations, FTC representatives asked whether possible waivers from antitrust laws should require ACOs to have certain basic attributes, such as use of electronic medical records.
FTC representatives asked stakeholders at an on Oct. 5 listening session on accountable care organizations whether planning for ACOs was the cause of the current upswing in mergers and acquisitions of both hospitals and physicians practices.