Nestled between New Hampshire and upstate New York, Vermont is a quiet, mostly rural state. But it's the site of a federal test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers ...

Medicare is trying again with another accountable care organization (ACO) payment model aimed at primary care doctors, but reactions to the new model are mixed so far. The voluntary model, known as ...

CMS released additional information Tuesday about its Track 1+ ACO model, which was first unveiled last month. The new ACO model is one of the options under the Medicare Shared Savings Program and ...

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will abandon the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program, the system confirmed Tuesday, after losing more than $3 million over the past two years in the ...

Vermont Business Magazine OneCare Vermont and Heidi Health have announced a partnership aimed at reducing the administrative burden for medical practitioners and improving quality of care for patients ...

CMS created a Medicare-Medicaid ACO model to improve the quality of care and lower costs to the programs’ beneficiaries. Here’s what you need to know. 1. The model mirrors the Medicare Shared Savings ...

In Part one of this two-part post, we explored the reasons for surging growth and profits in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and the dynamics, largely related to risk-coding games, that make MA a ...

Only 20 percent of executives have implemented an ACO-like model at their hospital WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (December 11, 2013) -According to a recent survey conducted by Purdue Healthcare Advisors, a non ...

Many providers are finding they don’t yet have the resources to participate in or take on the risks associated with accountable care organizations. But it’s not an all-or-nothing situation. In fact, ...

Essential value-based care competencies include robust data analytics, a compliance approach to coding, and an understanding of what makes an ACO successful at the clinic and individual provider level ...

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