Category: ACO
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KLAS Report Claims Accountable Care Is Changing the Face of Payer-Provider Relationships
A new report from KLAS shows that ACO payer agreements are profoundly altering payer-provider relationships. The report, entitled Accountable Care Payers: Partners in a Changing Paradigm, examines early findings and results from providers who have entered into commercial-ACO payer arrangements. The report reveals insights into four national payers at the forefront of the accountable…
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Morning Headlines 7/9/13
Study: Remote Patient Monitoring Adoption Poised For Robust Growth, Says Spyglass Consulting Group A new study compiling the opinions of more than 100 healthcare leaders working in organizations that provide telehealth services finds that remote patient monitoring solutions are positioned for strong short-term growth, driven by ACOs beginning to formulate population health strategies and hospitals…
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ACOs question clinical, financial efficacy of remote patient monitoring
While 55 percent of ACOs interviewed for a recent survey have deployed or are evaluating remote patient monitoring technology, 71 percent of organizations expressed concerns about integrating RPM technology with existing clinical care processes and clinical information systems including their electronic medical record. read more Source: ACOs question clinical, financial efficacy of remote patient monitoring
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Global mHealth initiatives making a difference
Mobile healthcare neither replaces nor displaces health providers but enables and enhances their practices, according to an article in the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics. The authors use three… read more Source: Global mHealth initiatives making a difference
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Will health IT failings foil accountable care?
Although healthcare is awash in data, getting it into the hands of clinicians so they can provide coordinated, quality care at the bedside remains a huge challenge. Just ask the 32 Pioneer accountable care organizations–including the nine Pioneer ACOs that may opt out of the program altogether. read more Source: Will health IT failings foil…
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ACOs increasingly turn to remote patient monitoring
More than half of accountable care organizations that responded to a recent survey from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Spyglass Consulting Group are using remote patient monitoring to manage high-risk chronically ill patients. read more Source: ACOs increasingly turn to remote patient monitoring
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Radiologists must become gatekeepers of medical imaging, says Penn Medicine’s Saurabh Jha
Big changes are coming to the US health care system—some in response to the mounting scrutiny of medical imaging. New task force recommendations, the Choosing Wisely campaign, and Affordable Care Act policies are all attempting to curtail overtesting—with CT scans, MRIs and any other screening often ordered unnecessarily—that can drive up medical costs, lead to…
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State highlights: Dartmouth joins N.H. Medicaid managed care
New Hampshire’s largest health care provider signed contracts Monday with three health care plans to join the state’s managed care network for Medicaid — a key to getting the network operating. Dartmouth-Hitchcock announced it will work with Well Sense Health Plan, Granite State Health Plan and Meridian Health Plan of New Hampshire to provide coordinated…
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Seton Health Alliance, UnitedHealthcare Form First Commercial ACO in Central Texas
Seton Health Alliance (SHA), Central Texas' first accountable care organization (ACO), and UnitedHealthcare are collaborating to provide coordinated health care to Central Texas residents enrolled in UnitedHealthcare's employer-sponsored health plans. Seton Health Alliance (SHA), Central Texas' first accountable care organization (ACO), and UnitedHealthcare are collaborating to provide coordinated health care to Central Texas residents enrolled…
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Research roundup: ‘Welcome-mat’ effect of Medicaid expansion; Setting up shops; California’s transition to Medicaid managed care
The number of people eligible for Medicaid who remain uninsured varies from state to state, according to the authors. But the federal health law is likely to increase the rate of enrollment for this group. The potential impact of this increase in Medicaid enrollment, also known as the ‘welcome-mat’ effect, is unclear. Source: Research roundup:…