Coordinated Care news from FierceHealthcare
NewsState proposes Medicare-Medicaid integration, ACO partnerships
The healthcare system in New York is looking to optimize care and reduce costs by partnering with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to integrate Medicaid and Medicare services Read more...
Nurses bring coordinated care expertise to ACOs
With coordinated care at the heart of accountable care organizations (ACO), nurses are applauding the Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) final rule released last month, anticipating Read more...
Hospital at home and integrated care improves quality, savings
Healthcare organizations looking to deliver high-quality care at a lower cost, might consider looking to an approach by New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services and the nation's largest Read more...
HHS releases final ACO rule with 'significant changes'
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) today released the final rule for accountable care organizations (ACO). After much criticism from professional physician organizations and aversion Read more...
Leaders from CIGNA, Dartmouth-Hitchcock share about their ACO success
Dick Salmon
Accountable care delivery seems to be on everyone's radar, but many healthcare leaders are scratching their heads over the many details involved in this coordinated care Read more...
New payment models promote undertreatment, malpractice risks
New coordinated care models, like accountable care organizations (ACOs), are being touted as ways to eliminate unnecessary tests and procedures and improve care. While these new arrangements may Read more...
Public would support coordinated care models, survey shows
A new public survey by the Commonwealth Fund reports that 72 percent of Americans think that the current healthcare system requires a major overhaul. Keeping this in mind, many say they would support Read more...
Upstate New York starts medical home network
Six health plans in the Hudson Valley area of upstate New York have pitched in $1.5 million to organize its enrollees into medical homes, reports Healthcare Finance News. Aetna, Hudson Health Plan, Read more...
Embracing the medical home
Increasingly, research is mounting that at least some patients do well with a "medical home"; a primary care physician who guides all of a patient's care. While some observers describe medical homes Read more...
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