CMS Releases Q&A on Accountable Care Organizations The CMS Office of Legislation has released a document explaining some basic facts about accountable care organizations, new umbrella groups of ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced ( Jan. 15 that it will host a webinar Jan. 29 on its new accountable care organization model, the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design Model.

"These results reflect the dedication of our team and prove that when care is coordinated and built on trusted relationships, patients experience better outcomes and the system spends less," said ...

Last year saw a sharp acceleration in new models of value-based care launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

The following article is written by Brenda Morrow ([email protected]) of HealthCare Reimbursement InSIGHT. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a long-awaited proposed ...

CMS has named 123 new accountable care organizations in its Medicare Shared Savings Program, effective Jan. 1, 2014. This is the largest group of new MSSP ACOs that Medicare has announced since the ...

The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations issued the following news release:. In a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, eleven leading ...

Indianapolis, IN, Feb. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Primaria Health, a primary care management services organization, has been selected to participate in the Medicare Next Generation Accountable Care ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine–Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University School of Public Health finds that how ...