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MD GROUP PRACTICE ACO CMS DEMONSTRATION: Results show improvement in quality & reduction in costs

I am catching up on my list serve email and ran across a CMS press release indicating encouraging results from Physician Group Practice Dem…

Started by Marisel Brown

0 Aug 27, 2011

Are ACO's a good model for clinics and private medical offices serving poor patients?

ACOs have their champions in those who are creatures of the model.  An example is a recent article in Health Affairs.  How well informed ar…

Started by Leona Ow Woodbridge

0 Jul 30, 2011

American Heart Association's 'Get With The Guidelines' fits primary care medical home model

The primary care medical home (PCMH) is the nucleus of the  ACO concept.  The report Better to Best  summarizes key PCMH elements and their…

Started by Marisel Brown

0 Jul 24, 2011

Mayo, Geisinger, and Intermountain Health Unhappy with ACO Regulations

Enough time has passed for the 420-odd ACO regs to be digested.  Several of the largest health systems are not happy.  The Mayo clinic sent…

Started by Tamar Knox

0 Jun 11, 2011

Physician groups unhappy with ACO regulations

Bureaucrats are telling anyone who complains about the ACO regulation, "Take a number."  A colleague in a group practice in California desc…

Started by Leona Ow Woodbridge

0 May 17, 2011

ACO Metrics: Measuring the patient experience-Strike 1?

It is still early days in the ACO planning phase yet hospitals are rewriting surveys to rate the patient experience.  I would think this wo…

Started by Tamar Knox

0 May 14, 2011

Patients as ACO shareholders

Health reform's health system delivery objectives include greater patient/familiy engagement in care decisions.  It is hard to tell how thi…

Started by Tamar Knox

0 Apr 30, 2011

VIDEO: In Search of an Accountable Care Organization

Another amusing take on ACO fever.  

Started by Tamar Knox

0 Apr 20, 2011

ACOs in a nutshell paid for by HIT big league

I know some think that magazine Hospitals & Health Networks is special project of a coalition that includes  Siemens and the like, but…

Started by Tamar Knox

0 Apr 11, 2011

Media coverage of proposed ACO regulations

This Health News webpage features links to major news outlets' coverage of draft ACO regulations released by HHS. http://onlinehealthnews.o

Started by Marisel Brown

0 Apr 4, 2011

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