2019
ACO Newsstand 1/11/2019
2018
ACO Newsstand 12/21/2018
Featured Articles:
- ACA repeal wouldn’t stop transition to value-based payment, efforts to lower drug spending
- Major health systems, insurers have converted nearly half of business to value-based payments
- Value-based care is boosting the value prop for interoperability
- ACOs saved $2.66B in 4 years
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ACO Newsstand 12/7/2018
Featured Articles:
- We Need More Data on Medicaid ACOs to Determine Drivers of Success
- NAACOS President Foresees “Shrinkage in Accountable Care Movement” Pending MSSP Final Rule
- Improving Patient Outcomes Through Care Coordination and Population Health Management
- Underserved populations use telehealth least, study finds
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ACO Newsstand 10/26/2018
Featured Articles:
- Industry on Medicare ACO Plan: Too Much Risk Too Fast
- Lawmakers Urge CMS to Modify Final Medicare ACO Regulation
- Physician Practices Joining Early ACOs Were Large and Capable, but Performance Was Modest
- Volume- to Value-Based Care: Physicians Willing to Manage Cost But Lack Data and Tools
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ACO Newsstand 10/5/2018
Featured Articles:
- Incremental approach to clinical variation can net significant savings
- Physician ACOs Associated With Growing MSSP Savings Over 3 Years
- Why ACOs Must Build Trust with Providers and Patients to Meet Goals
- Patient-Centered, Value-Based Health Care Is Incompatible With The Current Climate Of Excessive Regulation
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ACO Newsstand 9/7/2018
Featured Articles:
- How Next Generation ACOs Built a Foundation for Success
- Seema Verma’s Big Picture: Tough Love, ACO Acceleration, Interoperability, and Consumer Empowerment?
- Hospital-led ACOs perform worse than those led by physicians, study finds
- Medicare ACOs saved CMS $314 million in 2017
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ACO Newsstand 7/13/2018
Featured Articles:
- Create Value for Consumers by Leveraging ACO Provider Choice
- Cost containment is a top priority among health system executives
- CMS proposal builds remote patient monitoring into home health reimbursement
- CMS to Waive MIPS for Providers in At-Risk Medicare Advantage Plans
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ACO Newsstand 6/29/2018
Featured Articles:
- States consider Medicaid ACOs to remedy unsustainable spending: 4 things to know
- Coalition of ACOs, IT organizations throw support behind a CMS data-sharing mandate
- Improving the Medicare ACO Program: The Top 8 Policy Issues
- Accountable Care Organizations Want The Rewards But Few Want The Risk
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ACO Newsstand 6/15/2018
Featured Articles:
- Fee-for-Service Health Care: Three Phenomenon Affecting Success
- Medicare Paths to Value-Based Health Care: Which Way is Up?
- 5 steps to ensure your patients-like my husband-receive the end-of-life care they want
- Medicare Bundled Payment Programs Primed to Produce Savings
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ACO Newsstand 5/25/2018
Featured Articles:
- Assessing Providers for Participation in Value-Based Care Contracts
- Payment Reform In Transition: Scaling ACOs For Success
- Tipping Point Test for ACOs: Consent to Financial Risk
- How Intermountain shifted 50% of behavioral health patients out of an ED-and cut unnecessary admissions
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ACO Newsstand 5/4/2018
Featured Articles:
- Most ACOs would flee Medicare program if pushed to take on more risk
- Population health program leverages social determinant data with help of regional HIE
- Emory Healthcare, Walmart Team Up for an ACO, Bundled Payments
- How ACOs Can Use Pharmacists for Wellness Coaching, Engagement
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ACO Newsstand 4/20/2018
Featured Articles:
- ACOs don’t always reap the expected financial reward. Place-based care could help
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations
- Building A Value-Based Care Model in Life Sciences
- BPCI Advanced Will Further Emphasize The Need To Address Overlap Between Bundled Payments & ACOs
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ACO Newsstand 4/13/2018
Featured Articles:
- Medical Malpractice: 5 Important facts to know before choosing a carrier for your ACO Med Mal program
- Accountable Care Organizations and the Impact on Care Management
- Two Ways Employers Should Push ACO Arrangements To Evolve
- Medicare Accountable Care Organizations have increased federal spending, contrary to savings projections
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ACO Newsstand 4/6/2018
Featured Articles:
- Millennials demand telehealth in a move away from traditional primary care model
- No More ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ in Value-Based Care, Challenges Ahead for Insurers
- Seven ACOs drop out of Next Generation program but don’t say why
- ACO Economics 101: Optimize the Physician Network For Patient Choice
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ACO Newsstand 3/30/2018
Featured Articles:
- 7 ‘high-value’ elements ACOs should look for in new provider partnerships
- Reduced Cost Variability May Be An Unrecognized But Valuable Outcome Of Care Management Interventions
- ACO Repayment Mechanisms – Surety Bonds
- Almost half of physicians ‘aren’t aware’ of what blockchain is
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ACO Newsstand 2/23/2018
Featured Articles:
- Government Shutdown Averted, Telemedicine Coverage Expanded
- 5 reasons why your EHR isn’t enough for success in value-based care
- MSSP ACOs Save More By Spending Less on Inpatient, Post-Acute Care
- Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations Version 2.0 Underway in Minnesota and Colorado
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ACO Newsstand 2/16/2018
Featured Articles:
- The ABC of Physician Engagement: Point-of-Care Support For More Holistic Care
- ACO Quality Over Time: The MSSP Experience and Opportunities for System-Wide Improvement
- The downside risk cliff: What the 82 ACOs about to be forced into downside risk should do right now
- Medicare ACOs – The Enrollment & The Savings Are Increasing
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ACO Newsstand 1/26/2018
Featured Articles:
- Pop health tech improves medical group’s ACO performance with Medicare wellness visits
- CMS Welcomes 58 Next Generation ACO Model Participants in 2018
- Docs left in the dark again about MIPS requirements
- No risk, no reward: ACOs would’ve made $966M more in downside risk model
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ACO Newsstand 1/19/2018
Featured Articles:
- MedPAC backs bid to scrap MIPS Medicare pay system amid dissent
- In Illinois, an MSSP ACO proves its worth once again
- Study: Maryland’s value-based care program controlled costs but didn’t necessarily improve care
- Value-based care will reinvigorate EHRs, boost AI, advance home telehealth
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ACO Newsstand 1/5/2018
Featured Articles:
- What’s the Driving Force Behind UnityPoint Health’s Continued ACO Success?
- How Process, Outcome Measures Contribute to Population Health
- The Fourfold Strategy to Successful Patient Engagement: Story of Mercy ACO
- Leading Healthcare Organizations Applaud the Introduction of the ACOImprovement Act of 2017
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2017
ACO Newsstand 12/1/2017
Featured Articles:
- Medicare Accountable Care Organization Results For 2016: Seeing Improvement, Transformation Takes Time
- Is a “Medical Virtualist” Specialty On The Horizon?
- ACOs Want Risk Adjustment, Benchmark Tweaks
- Unintended Consequences: CMS’ Readmissions Program Might Be Harming Patients
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