IRS ruling whacks some ACOs
The New York Times reports that an Internal Revenue Service ruling creates a significant obstacle to many Accountable Care Organizations. The Obama administration has promoted ACOs as a way to provide...
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Dartmouth discusses its ACO woes
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Healthcare leaders at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and the affiliated Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have been busily explaining to the...
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Wis. ACO laying off 40% of employees
The Milwaukee Business Journal reports that Integrated Health Network {IHN} of Wisconsin, an Accountable Care Organization based in Brookfield, has laid off 21 employees (40 percent of its employees)...
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Feds give preliminary OK to Vt. ‘all-payer’ plan
The Vermont State House, in Montpelier, the nation’s smallest state capital. VTDigger reports that the federal government and Vermont have drafted a preliminary agreement to implement an “all-payer”...
View ArticleUnitedHealthcare is launching a national ACO
UnitedHealth Group‘s UnitedHealthcare unit, America’s largest health insurer, will launch a nationally branded Accountable Care Organization as part of its push to value-based care aimed at luring...
View ArticleMoney seems to triumph over an ACO’s good intentions
Creating Accountable Care Organizations is meant to improve care and help cut the costs of the world’s most expensive healthcare system. But such attempts run into a huge barrier caused by the fact...
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ACA repeal could kill innovative programs at hospitals
The Republicans’ promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act not only threatens to deprive millions of people of their health insurance; it could drive many hospitals deep into debt and destroy...
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Big churn seen of physicians and patients in a Medicare Pioneer ACO
“Chaos,” by George Frederick Watts. An article in Health Affairs reports: “Alternative payment models, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), attempt to stimulate improvements in care delivery...
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How huge NYC safety-net system made its ACO a success
Headquarters of NYC Health + Hospitals. A Health Affairs blog entry looks at how the huge safety-net system NYC Health +Hospitals has built a highly successful Accountable Care Organization since...
View ArticleNYC value-based joint venture chalks up savings
In an NEJM Catalyst article headlined “Success in Hospital-Integrated Accountable Care Organization,” the authors write: “Conventional wisdom holds that urban academic medical centers are ill-suited...
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