The Medicare Shared Savings Program lets healthcare providers form or join Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to coordinate higher-quality care to Medicare beneficiaries while helping reduce costs.

Even though accountable care organizations are a somewhat new care delivery model, they have made quite an impact on the world of healthcare already. New commercial ACOs are announced on a regular ...

Marc Bard, MD, chief innovation officer in the healthcare practice of Navigant Consulting, is the co-author of the recently published white paper, “Accountable Care Organizations and Payment Reform: ...

Ray Chicoine, COO of Monarch Healthcare, a 2,500-physician independent practice organization (IPA) in Orange County, Calif., discusses Monarch’s efforts to develop an accountable care organization in ...

ACOs, Medicare Advantage and other value-based care forms may look complex, but the bottom line is still profitability. Once upon a time, Accountable Care Organizations were going to be the knight in ...

Essential value-based care competencies include robust data analytics, a compliance approach to coding, and an understanding of what makes an ACO successful at the clinic and individual provider level ...

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

In a presentation at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 10, Andrew Hayek, president and CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates and chairman of the ...

Decisions, decisions, decisions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Trump Administration will have its hands full making decisions about Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Ethical analysis of population health management calls for a communitarian vs individual approach, starting with reconceiving “covered lives” as “patient communities.” US health care has long sought ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...