To support hospital revenue cycle management during the transition to accountable care, hospital executives are calling on their organizations to embrace the opportunities - and challenges - that come...
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...
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...
At this year’s HIMSS conference and exhibition, Chilmark Research released the 2016 Care Management Market Trends report, which outlines how the market is leaning on healthcare providers to create...
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...
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...
Pay-for-performance incentives positively sway physician behavior when it comes to value-based care advancement, according to a new JAMA Pediatrics study. Financial incentives tied to value-based...
Is the "Accountable" part of accountable care organizations being ignored? Over 100 new Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) participants will keep quality high and costs low, according to...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are reportedly being penalized for high revenue cycle management performance. Healthcare providers looking to manage their claims reimbursement strategies remain...
Medicare spending is on the rise as the sizable impact of high-priced drugs on healthcare spending evolves. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) appear to be either in, out, or somewhere in between on...
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may be a welcome hospital reimbursement innovation for the critical access community. Critical care organizations far away from the hustle and bustle of a...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently selected twenty-one healthcare organizations to participate in a newfangled Next Generation Accountable Care Organization...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) discussed the evolving healthcare market yesterday at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San...
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....
