Accountable care organizations (ACO) hold the key to successfully implementing value-based care and receiving value-based reimbursement. However, delivering quality care while also preparing for...
More than 700 accountable care organizations (ACO) currently work toward the goal of improving the quality of healthcare while also reducing capital costs of healthcare thanks to the Affordable Care Act....
Because of the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare industry continues to move toward value-based care. As a result, Medicare has invested heavily in value-based reimbursement structures, such as...
Accountable care organizations (ACO) are beginning to achieve results as they help to move the healthcare system towards a value-based care delivery environment. As the popularity of these arrangements...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving forward with updating the rules and programs around accountable care organizations. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)...
The health payer industry and the federal government including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have positioned hospitals, clinics, and medical practices to adopt necessary...
One of the attributes of a sustainable value-based healthcare delivery system is payment based on the value of services delivered, instead of the volume-based fee-for-service model.
Bundled payments...
The Medicare Shared Savings Program has not, as of yet, reduced healthcare spending for the federal government. Along with the lack of cost savings within the Medicare-sponsored program, Kaiser Health...
Since the healthcare industry has experienced rising costs over the years, providers and federal agencies have focused their energies on implementing new value-based payment models and healthcare...
New healthcare payment models are being advised by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). From alternative payment models to the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Comprehensive...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is constantly attempting to reform and modify current programs in order to achieve the Triple Aim of Healthcare – reduced medical costs,...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center announced the opening of its final round of applications for Next Generation Account Care Organization (ACO) Model, which will begin on...
Accountable care organizations consist of a network in which payers, primary care physicians, and specialists work together to improve the health of a population. To dive deeper into one of the type of...
Alternative payment models like the accountable care organization (ACO) and the bundled payment model have been gaining popularity under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) mandates.
Figuring...
The patient-centered accountable care organization (ACO) is the new future of healthcare.
According to Mark Wagar, President of Heritage Medical Systems, when patients' voices are...
Shared-decision making promotes strong dialogue between healthcare providers and healthcare consumers and builds stronger value-based care outcomes.
At its core, shared-decision making gives...
Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) are finally smoothing out regional hospitals' revenue cycle wrinkles. But successful ACOs still need to adopt tighter standards to remain...
Value-based reimbursement and pay-for-performance incentives are positively influencing pediatric accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to research from JAMA Pediatrics. The new future of...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a proposed rule to improve performance incentives for accountable care organizations (ACOs) under the Medicare Shared Savings...
The Medicare Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) has proven it is able to manage larger performance-based financial risk levels. But some Pioneer ACOs dropped out when quality benchmarks were too...
