RevCycle Intelligence | November 17, 2016
Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) that are part of Premier Inc.'s Population Health Management Collaborative (PHMC) outperformed other Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and Pioneer ACOs in earning shared savings and improving care quality by almost two to one, Premier recently
announced. Premier researchers found that Medicare could have saved nearly $1.36 billion in 2015, about three times more than the $466 million actually saved, if all other Medicare ACOs achieved similar cost and quality performance scores as Premier's Medicare ACOs.
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HealthLeaders Media | November 11, 2016
A study of 32 ACOs found that 16 of them were working to address patients' non-medical needs. Housing instability, food security, and transportation were among the most common needs addressed, with various methods being used for each. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other players in the healthcare system need to look after patients' non-medical needs if they want their health outcomes to improve, several speakers said Thursday at a briefing on the "Culture of Health" sponsored by Health Affairs..
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Upcoming Events
ACO Population Health Congress
December 8-9, 2016 | Tampa, FL
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ACO Population Health Management Summit
January 25-26, 2017 | Atlanta, GA
The Managed Care Congress
February 27-28, 2017 | Arlington, VA
NAACOS Spring 2017 Conference
April 5-7, 2017 | Baltimore, MD
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ACO Coalition Spring 2017 Conference
May 4-5, 2017 | Scottsdale, AZ
Eighth National ACO Summit
June 28-29, 2017 | Arlington, VA
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Healthcare IT News | October 26, 2016
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said that the network effect his company and other EHR vendors are aiming for will create the potential for so many buzzwords permeating healthcare today.
Those include artificial intelligence, Big Data, population health and others. "All of those ideas depend on somebody getting share - enough share so that it doesn't hurt to unhook the addiction - the insistence on the terrestrial fee-for service machine," Bush said at the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit here. "So, for us, we're excited to build in retail, break the walls of our system and create a much wider definition of network - and therefore potential for network effect."
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HealthPayer Intelligence | November 7, 2016
MACRA legislation impacts a number of healthcare providers and entities including accountable care organizations (ACOs). Only a few Medicare
accountable care organizations will actually be able to participate in Advanced Alternative Payment Models under MACRA but the rest will need to take part in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment Program (MIPS).
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Vendor Spotlight 
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