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Healthcare Finance | September 22, 2016
Achieving financial success on the total cost of care takes time, but the benefits of
accountable care organizations are not limited to shared savings, according to a report published in the American Journal of Managed Care. Authors Farzad Mostashari, MD, and Travis Broome based their findings on running their own physician-led ACO organization. Aledade ACOs have successfully increased primary care utilization and revenue, decreased lab and imaging costs, and decreased emergency department and hospital utilization and readmission.
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EHR Intelligence | August 19, 2016
MACRA
is about to revolutioni
ze reimbursement for providers of M
edicare Part B services. MACRA, which replaces the flawed Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR), links the majority of fee-for-service payments
to value and quality and adjusts reimbursement rates based on a provider's performance relative to his peers. For eligible clinicians, risk is now unavoidable and the race to demonstrate improvements in the cost and quality of care is already underway...
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Upcoming Events
NAACOS FAll 2016 Conference
September 28-30 2016 | Washington, DC
October 13-14, 2016 | Orlando, FL
ACO Coalition Fall 2016 Meeting
October 20-21, 2016 | Philadelphia, PA
3rd Annual ACO Strategy Summit
October 25-25 2016 | Washington, DC
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HealthLeaders Media | September 19, 2016
 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has all but declared war on readmissions. But one researcher suggests that the relationship between readmission rates and quality is flawed. Researchers and physicians at The Johns Hopkins Hospital are challenging the notion that readmissions are an accurate measure of quality...
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Health Affairs | September 21, 2016
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released financial and quality performance data for its ACO programs for the fourth performance year (PY4) of the Pioneer ACO Program and third performance year (PY3) of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). CMS data reveal that the Pioneer and MSSP programs produced savings of $466 million in 2015 for Medicare, a small increase of about $55 million over savings generated in 2014...
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Vendor Spotlight
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