HealthPayer Intelligence | January 30, 2017
While government agencies, healthcare payers, and medical organizations put their efforts and hopes in advancing ACOs, these healthcare delivery reforms lack significant social service interventions, according to a new report from Health Affairs. Investing in social services tend to add value to the quality of accountable care organizations. However, many ACOs under state Medicaid programs and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) tend to lack payment incentives to integrate social services...
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Becker's Hospital Review | January 30, 2017
Medical and public health experts generally agree that socioeconomic and environmental factors have an overwhelming influence on health disparity and patient outcomes. If health systems aim to thrive under outcomes- and value-based reimbursement, they must also assume greater responsibility for the health of the communities they serve - both inside and outside of the hospital walls.
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Upcoming Events
2017 Network Contracting & Management Congress
February 27-28, 2017 | Las Vegas, NV
The Managed Care Congress
February 27-28, 2017 | Arlington, VA
12th National Value-Based Payment & Pay for Performance Summit
March 8-10, 2017 | San Francisco, CA
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2017 Value-Based Healthcare Congress
March 30-31, 2017 | Las Vegas, NV
NAACOS Spring 2017 Conference
April 5-7, 2017 | Baltimore, MD
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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TechTarget | February 2, 2017
The accountable care organization model, the most notable health IT feature of the Affordable Care Act, appears relatively safe from efforts by President Trump and congressional Republicans to repeal the landmark universal health insurance law. While the
ACA repeal has strong support in the GOP-controlled Congress and the backing of the new president, most indications are that the accountable care organization (
ACO) model is not being targeted due to broad bipartisan consensus on
value-based care and reimbursement.
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Healthcare IT News | January 20, 2017
To say that a lot has changed in healthcare since last year's HIMSS conference is an understatement. Right now, a new Congress and a new Administration are wrestling with how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the signature health reform law of the Obama Administration. Despite all that's changed, one thing has not: the move from fee-for-service to value-based care..
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Vendor Spotlight
U.S. Advisors serves ACOs in managing and mitigating risk they already have due to missed financial benchmarks and reduce the negative impact of large medical catastrophic claims with Reinsurance reimbursement. They have been at the genesis of the ACO Industry since 2012 with Reinsurance solutions including Reinsurance Captives that make the ACO's profits tax-advantaged. Solutions extend to commercial and Medicare populations for greater savings and profit protection. They construct viable options around the CMS initiatives for maximum results and protection...
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Gold Level Vendors
Thank you to our Gold Level Vendor Members. These organizations offer the highest quality products & services to the ACO & IPA community. To learn more, visit their booths at our website: ACOExhibitHall.com
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