Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An ACO is an Accountable Care Organization and there is certainly a risk that if physicians don't prepare for ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program lets healthcare providers form or join Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to coordinate higher-quality care to Medicare beneficiaries while helping reduce costs.

Marc Bard, MD, chief innovation officer in the healthcare practice of Navigant Consulting, is the co-author of the recently published white paper, “Accountable Care Organizations and Payment Reform: ...

ACOs, Medicare Advantage and other value-based care forms may look complex, but the bottom line is still profitability. Once upon a time, Accountable Care Organizations were going to be the knight in ...

As a result of a shift in population dynamics, the United States’ healthcare delivery system — which was built on the idea of treating people with a single acute illness — is challenged with the task ...

Ray Chicoine, COO of Monarch Healthcare, a 2,500-physician independent practice organization (IPA) in Orange County, Calif., discusses Monarch’s efforts to develop an accountable care organization in ...

Though accountable care organizations have been around for more than a decade, their effectiveness at reducing healthcare costs remains a highly debated issue, prompting impassioned condemnations and ...

In a presentation at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 10, Andrew Hayek, president and CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates and chairman of the ...

There is no shortage of nuanced rules in the Medicare law. But one only finds out about these hidden rules when they run into an issue—getting a bill they didn’t expect, paying more for a prescription ...

Ethical analysis of population health management calls for a communitarian vs individual approach, starting with reconceiving “covered lives” as “patient communities.” US health care has long sought ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...