Category: ACO

The three year period in which the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) will fund the Beacon Community Program is coming to an end, and one Beacon is preparing for the “after life.” San Diego Regional Health Information Exchange’s Dan Chavez is looking forward to self-sustainability and an organization of trust. The…

The Children's Care Alliance is working with health information solutions provider Alere Accountable Care Solutions to create a health information exchange for underserved children in the Lehigh Valley, Pa. read more …read more Source: Collaboration creates HIE for underserved children

The July 16 announcement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that nine of the 32 patient care organizations participating in the Pioneer ACO Shared Savings Program were leaving the Pioneer program, with two of them leaving the Medicare Shared Savings Program altogether, was cause for reflective pause. But is the glass half-empty or…

Seven Pioneer accountable care organizations (ACOs) that did not produce savings in the first year of the Pioneer program will switch to another ACO model—the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP)—and two others in the Pioneer program will abandon Medicare accountable care models altogether, according to an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…

Cigna and Hunterdon Healthcare Partners, LLC, a physician hospital organization (PHO) affiliated with Hunterdon Healthcare, have launched a collaborative accountable care initiative to improve patient access to health care, enhance care coordination, and achieve the “triple aim” of improved health, affordability and patient experience. …read more Source: Cigna, Hunterdon Healthcare Partners launch collaborative accountable care…

Modern Healthcare reports that Medicare Pioneers have until July 15 to let the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services know if they plan to stay in the program for a second year. Meanwhile, the Connecticut Mirror offers a picture of how accountable care organizations work. …read more Source: ACO pioneers face decision deadline

My readers make some of the best comments. They’re definitely engaged in what’s happening in the EHR world and provide me amazing inspiration for future posts. In this case, John Brewer commented on my post about meaningful use forcing doctors into ACOs. Here’s a portion of his comment: MU is actually easy…depending on your EHR.…

Los Angeles Times: It’s Time To Focus On Fixing The Affordable Care Act, Not Gutting ItConservatives have married their political fortunes to the notion that Obamacare is a catastrophe and must be discarded in its entirety -; even though some of the signature elements of the law, such as a requirement that most people be…

July 3 was the quiet afternoon that a deputy assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy announced in a blog post that the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate would be delayed one year. Something about the “complexity of the requirements.” … Even if you are a liberal and support the goals of the Affordable Care Act,…