Author: trident500
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Analyzing CMSs Medicare Shared Savings Final Rule Implementation Advice for ACOs
To avoid missing other opportunities inherent in the ACO model, payors and providers shouldn’t get hung up waiting for CMS’s rule for Medicare accountable care organizations, advises Greg Mertz, senior project director with the Healthcare Strategy
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Improving Transitions of Care Between Hospital and SNF: A Collaboration Supporting the Accountable Care Vision
Working with a network of 40 skilled nursing facilities to hone the hospital-to-SNF transfer of care has accomplished two goals for Summa Health System: readmissions and lengths of stay for patients released to SNFs have been reduced, and the experienc…
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Improving Transitions of Care Between Hospital and SNF A Collaboration Supporting the Accountable Care Vision
Working with a network of 40 skilled nursing facilities to hone the hospital-to-SNF transfer of care has accomplished two goals for Summa Health System: readmissions and lengths of stay for patients released to SNFs have been reduced, and the
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2011 Metrics in Accountable Care Organizations
Are accountable care organizations (ACOs) the new wave of healthcare delivery? In this month’s healthcare performance benchmarks podcast, Healthcare Intelligence Network’s Melanie Matthews analyzes the industry’s acceptance of and participation in acco…
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Rewarding Primary Care Practice Reform with Physician Payment Reform: A Medical Home’s Experience
Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan’s (CDPHP) medical home pilot began in 2008, with the dual goals of reforming both the practice of primary care in the CDPHP network and payments to these physicians. Dr. Bruce Nash, CDPHP’s senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer, explains what sets the two-phase CDPHP program apart…
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The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Using Data Linkage and Cohort Designs to Create Data Synergy at MCHP
The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) has been called a "data-rich environment" (Roos et al. 2004). Indeed, the depth and breadth of the data justify this description – there are currently nearly 100 databases held in the Population Health Data Repository ("the Repository") at MCHP, with some containing data back to 1970. And the…
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Physician-Owned ACOs: Overcoming the Legal and Regulatory Compliance Challenges
Even though the specifics of Medicare’s Shared Savings Program have yet to be defined, physician organizations can still position themselves to achieve cost savings through an independent accountable care organization (ACO), notes Jeffrey R. Ruggiero, …
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Physician-Owned ACOs Overcoming the Legal and Regulatory Compliance Challenges
Even though the specifics of Medicare’s Shared Savings Program have yet to be defined, physician organizations can still position themselves to achieve cost savings through an independent accountable care organization (ACO), notes Jeffrey R.
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The Essentials of an Accountable Care Organization: Preparing for the ACO Model
The accountable care organization (ACO) is a staple of healthcare reform. CMS will launch its Shared Savings Program — an ACO for Medicare patients — in January 2012. John Harris, principal with the consulting firm of DGA Partners, advises potentia…
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The Essentials of an Accountable Care Organization Preparing for the ACO Model
The accountable care organization (ACO) is a staple of healthcare reform. CMS will launch its Shared Savings Program — an ACO for Medicare patients — in January 2012. John Harris, principal with the consulting firm of DGA Partners, advises