The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday announced the 21 health systems that are participating in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model, some having defected from ...

Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health, an alliance of nonprofit physician groups and a home health agency and hospice, has been working toward population health management for some time, so joining ...

For the first time, CMS has published individual financial and performance results for the original 32 Pioneer accountable care organizations, which provide insight into why 12 of the ACOs exited the ...

It’s often said that our society is one steeped waist-deep in impatience. We want fast Internet, fast food, quick news, overnight deliveries. And this culture of immediate gratification pervades ...

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

Many health systems behind CMS’ 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations disagree with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s approach to quality measurement and are demanding changes to ...

Following two years of considerable financial losses, one health system is considering dropping out of the CMS Pioneer ACO program altogether. "We'd really liked to stay in, but when you see two years ...

Health Care Management Review, Vol. 44, No. 2 (April-June 2019), pp. 93-103 (11 pages) Background: Medicare was an early innovator of accountable care organizations (ACOs), establishing the Medicare ...

Atlanta-based rimidi is piloting its diabetes management and population health software Diabetes+Me in a 129-patient randomized control trial (RCT) with Heritage California ACO, a pioneer accountable ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The first year of data is in for the Medicare Pioneer ...

The authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination ...