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Welcome to this week's issue of ACO Newsstand, brought to you by ACOExhibitHall.com.
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FierceHealthcare | October 5, 2018
Proposed changes to the federal accountable care organization (ACO) model-namely, a cut in the shared savings rate from 50% to 25%-would cut the knees out from under the program, board members of the National Association of ACOs said on Thursday. Speaking with reporters at their annual conference in Washington, D.C., ACO leaders said they supported many of the proposed changes that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have brought forward regarding ACOs..
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AJMC | October 5, 2018
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) often care for many patients with complex, chronic conditions that can lead to high expenditures and utilization of care. In the United States, 1% of the population accounts for 21% of healthcare expenditures and the costliest 5% account for more than half of all health spending, according to
a report published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
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FLAACOs 2018 Fall Conference
October 18-19, 2018 | Orlando, FL
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ACO Strategy Summit
October 22-23, 2018 | Washington, DC
Patient-Centered Health Forum: Actionable Data for Connected Care
November 2, 2018 | Scottsdale, AZ
ACO Population Health Management Summit
January 30- February 1, 2019 | Atlanta, GA
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ACO Watch | October 8, 2018
It may come to a surprise for some that 'healthcare innovation' has been in play for quite some time albeit not fueled by a culture of hacking or disrupting legacy operations principally via technology. Unfortunately a veritable acronym soup of mostly failed initiatives under varying degrees of public, private partnership (PPP) collaborations have been largely unsuccessful albeit with momentary pauses to the growth rate of healthcare or its underlying medical care cost (MCC) inflation..
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Health Affairs | October 11, 2018
What can be done to encourage doctors and other clinicians to heed new evidence when it shows the tests or procedures they are delivering are in fact not helping their patients-and may even harm them? This question has become increasingly relevant in the face of a growing number of studies casting doubt on the safety and efficacy of commonly used treatments and tests..
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