Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are designed to generate revenue by keeping patients happy. When ACOs were a tad newer, beneficiaries reportedly confirmed they were indeed satisfied with the level...
Are you a healthcare provider considering making the accountable care switch as a New Year’s resolution? Staying in the black for 2016 means anticipating and preparing for possible financial...
A new year calls for new accountable care organization (ACO) reflections. What is the new ACO future?
Healthcare providers remain focused on collecting financial bonuses and achieving subsequent...
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) — groups of doctors, hospitals, and healthcare providers helping provide Medicare beneficiaries with...
Everyone makes mistakes. But what happens when an innocent mistake sends someone to the grave? Hundreds of thousands of patients reportedly die annually because of avoidable medical errors....
Are value-based payment models garnering favorable reviews or mere disdain from physicians? A new Value-Based Payment (VBP) Humana-funded study aims to answer this...
Just as Rome was not built in a day, neither is a doctor. Training a physician can take up to a decade; the Colosseum was perhaps ironically built in less time.
With predictions of massive physician...
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...
Chief medical officers (CMOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) must effectively collaborate – both individually and mutually – to combat the healthcare industry’s profound...
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 &...
Health insurance coverage woes continue to affect a great number of individuals, claims the President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).
According to a recent press release, Robert...
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has allocated $500 million in Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to aid health centers and increase primary care services, according to a recent press...
Value-based incentives may be gaining momentum as integral parts of physician reimbursement models. A recent survey by Sullivan, Cotter, and Associates confirms that using quality-based incentives and...
Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) – collaborative groups of physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers who voluntarily unite to help provide better coordinated care –...
Behavioral health integration (BHI) is becoming increasingly important as physical health and mental health are being viewed as equally important to a patient’s overall health. However, in...
Primary care providers confirm mixed opinions regarding healthcare changes to healthcare delivery and payment within the primary care practice environment, states a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund...
A notable Accountable Care arrangement and collaboration was announced yesterday between North Shore-LIJ Health System and Empire BlueCross BlueShield that will provide over 33,000 commercial and...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) may be growing in popularity amongst healthcare professionals, according to a recent survey conducted by the American Association for Physician Leadership (AALP) and...
Value-based payment readiness is apparently an area of weakness for senior financial executives, reports an executive survey from the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and Humana.
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