Primary care practices need new ways of being paid if they are going to survive and thrive in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, several speakers said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by the Alliance for Health Policy. “Fee-for-service is simply not a system this is conducive or amendable to primary care being able to thrive…
Join Salient Healthcare, along with Cura Management’s Marsha Boggess and Palm Beach ACO’s David Klebonis, as we delve into the topic of gaining market share as a value-based organization. In this session, ACOs will expose their secrets on market share growth and we will show how to use your own data to influence decisions…
The National Association of ACOs sent a letter this week to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation seeking more information on the future of the direct contracting and Next Generation ACO models. While industry supported the Direct Contracting Model when it was announced in April 2019, the program has been on an unclear hiatus…
Dive Brief: Accountable care organizations want more help from the Trump administration to gain a more solid financial footing amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. ACOs, whose payments are tied to spending and patient health benchmarks, are asking CMS to give them the option of protection from any financial losses for a reduced shared savings rate…
Hospitals and providers face unprecedented financial pressure amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Providers are losing $1.4 billion daily as they experience significant declines in patient volume, according to consulting firm Crowe. Healthcare executives are responding to the financial declines with workforce reductions, pay cuts and other cost-cutting measures. Debbie Zimmerman, MD, Corporate CMO at Lumeris, a value-based…
With the growing recognition of the importance of Social Determinants of Health, many ACOs are wondering how to realistically impact important factors such as safe and affordable housing in the communities they serve. A few large health systems have invested tens of millions of dollars into affordable housing projects. Others have taken small steps, such…
DOWNLOAD SLIDES The predictions for ACOs during and post-pandemic is anything but positive. But are these rumors fact or fiction? What is the new reality for ACOs amid changing rules and a post-COVID world? ACOs can stay healthy and strong with new tactics to manage and maintain quality, cost and risk. Webinar presenters Dr….
Although 45% of ACOs now comprise physician groups without a hospital partnership, the market potential for further growth of physician group–led ACOs is much stronger than for hospital- or health system–led ACOs. Our market potential estimates are admittedly rough and should be viewed as only directionally correct, but they suggest that there is more room…
For two decades, consolidation in health care has been a strong industry trend. Championed by hospitals and hospital-organized systems, care is now less independent and more centralized, especially in urban settings. Widespread acquisitions of physician practices and towers of specialty services, diagnostics, and treatment seem to have forever changed the health care landscape. But in…
Physician groups did not reduce their share of vulnerable patients after joining an accountable care organization despite claims of the opposite, a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine revealed. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are the largest payment reform experimentation, with over 1,000 of the organizations covering more than 32 million patients in 2018, researchers reported….
