Category: ACO

A new analysis led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health offers insights for nonprofit hospitals in implementing community health improvement programs. In a special issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved that focuses on the Affordable Care Act, a multidisciplinary team of Pitt researchers explore published…

After a decade of experimentation with reforms that give health providers financial incentives to improve performance, relatively little is known about how to best execute such strategies or judge their success, according to a new RAND Corporation report. …read more    

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., obviously is a great adherent of the adage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” On Monday his committee released another attack on Medicaid, one of the linchpins of the Affordable Care Act and one that for some reason is especially detested by conservatives, like…

In an industry full of incredibly busy executives, Chuck Podesta must surely count as one of the busiest, as he helps lead pioneering work on ACO, HIE, and data analytics development—all at the same time In an industry full of incredibly busy executives, Chuck Podesta must surely count as one of the busiest. Podesta has…

As Accountable Care Organizations take on risk contracts which align incentives to create continuous wellness rather than treat episodic sickness, there is a drive to create “systemness” by moving from acquisitions of practices and hospitals to integration. There are many ways to accomplish this such as moving to a single EHR with a single database…

When Steward Health Care System first embarked on its journey as a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization in January 2012, the process was akin to building a plane and flying it at the same time, according to Dominique Morgan-Solomon, vice president of population health for the Boston-based provider. To that end, analytics were vital to her…

Under the Affordable Care Act, an estimated 4 million people who have spent time in jail will have better access to health coverage for conditions that might-if left untreated-result in higher health care costs and an increased risk of recidivism. …read more    

It’s fair to say that Linda Shanley has a rather full plate these days. “We’re a 600-bed hospital – we’re two hospitals, actually: one’s a rehab hospital – and right now we’re going through an Epic implementation,” said Shanley, vice president and chief information officer at Hartford, Conn.-based Saint Francis Hospital. read more …read more    

National Patient Identifier: Why Patient-Matching Technology May be a Better Solution By Vicki Wheatley Advances in technology, combined with The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, have begun to revive calls in the media for a national patient identifier—similar to the national provider identifier (NPI) assigned to physicians. The HIPAA legislation of 1996 included provisions…

Gov. Pat McCrory’s health agency is backing away from initial proposals to fix Medicaid costs by hiring a handful of big managed care organizations to run North Carolina’s $13 billion health care system. The state Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday presented its framework for revamping Medicaid to an advisory group set up…