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Healthcare Finance | February 18, 2020
Accountable Care Organizations formed for the first time in 2011 and were designed to combat rising medical costs and provide more coordinated care to Medicare patients. But the savings have been inconsistent nationwide.
A new Portland State University study looked at what's driving these inconsistencies and what ACOs might do to resolve the issue.
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Healthcare Innovation | February 13, 2020
Despite interest in addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) to improve patient outcomes, little progress has been made in integrating social services with medical care. Even for accountable care organizations (ACOs) that have been early adopters in addressing social needs, significant difficulties have been experienced in this area.
These findings were detailed in the
February issue
of Health Affairs, as researchers aimed to understand how healthcare providers with strong motivation (for example, operating under new payment models) and commitment (for example, early adopters) fared at addressing patients' social needs.
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Value-Based Healthcare Congress
February 27-28, 2020 | Las Vegas, NV
NAACOS Spring 2020 Conference
April 1-3, 2020 | Baltimore, MD
June 3-5, 2020 | Austin, TX
June 10-12, 2020 | Washington, DC
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MedPage Today | February 14, 2020
Want doctors to get into alternative payment model arrangements like accountable care organizations (ACOs)? Start with "baby steps" like giving them only upside risk, Greg Griggs, executive vice president and CEO of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians, in Raleigh, said here at the National Health Policy Conference...
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RevCycle Intelligence | February 14, 2020
The passage of the Affordable Care Act sparked many innovative care delivery and payment reform models. One unique model that emerged from this trend was the accountable care organization (ACO).
In this model, groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers voluntarily come together to deliver coordinated, high-quality care to patients. The organizations achieve their goals using a universal budgeting system and value-based reimbursement.
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Exhibitor Spotlight
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