The new future of the Accountable Care Organization is here. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced 121 new Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) participants....
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) generated over $411 million in net program savings last year, according to financial and quality performance results from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Laws that restrict financial arrangements between hospitals, physicians, beneficiaries, and the like are on the immediate horizon, according to newly published regulation from the Centers for Medicare...
Do Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have longevity in the healthcare industry or will they soon merely be gone with the wind?
As RevCycleIntelligence.com reported, the Centers for Medicare &...
Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) – collaborative groups of physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers who voluntarily unite to help provide better coordinated care –...
Established payment algorithms of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are up for review. Following a hearty cache of recently proposed physician fee schedules and payment policies, the...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announces a final rule updating the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The primary objective of CMS’s actions is to promote high...
The number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) is on the rise, albeit a tad slowly, confirms new research from Niyum Ghandi, Partner at Oliver Wyman.
There has been active ACO expansion...
Many of the HIMSS15 educational sessions this week in Chicago offered valuable insight into the financial future of the healthcare industry.
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, Aledade Inc....
Improving the overall quality and efficiency of medical care via physicians’ active execution of “meaningful and actionable information” is necessary to promote reimbursement rewarding...
118 out of 220 participating Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs generated savings through reduced costs, but only 58 of these ACOs managed to meet the shared savings threshold.
Seventeen medical...
CMS’s proposed changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program would save approximately $280 million more than the median net savings in federal funds from 2016 through 2018.
The Medicare Shared...
Several potential new rules would strengthen the Medicare Shared Savings Program by altering risk/reward, enrollment and more.
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced...
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) extended the effectiveness of an interim final...
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the availability of a new initiative for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that are participating in the Medicare Shared...
Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) improved patient care and generated over $372 million in total program savings, according to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The...
On Friday, July 11, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule for its “Revisions to Payments Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other...
