My medical practice will soon join an accountable care organization, or ACO. I’ll then be part of a group of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who have come together to offer ...

Manhasset, N.Y.-based Beacon Health Partners, an independent physician association made up of 90 independent physician practices throughout New York, began moving toward forming an ACO in 2010, ...

Becker’s Hospital Review is pleased to highlight a variety of Medicare and commercial payer accountable care organizations, led by hospitals and health systems, physician groups and other ...

Accountable care organizations helped reduced Medicare medical costs without increasing prescription drug spending, according to a recently published analysis. The study, conducted by researchers at ...

David J. Nyweide ([email protected]) is a social science research analyst in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in Baltimore, Maryland.

A dozen medical groups and healthcare organizations are calling on the Biden administration to delay and make significant changes to the way accountable care organizations report and are measured on ...

During this segment, Michael Kolodziej, MD, and Ted Okon, MBA, discuss how programs such as CMS’ Next Generation ACO model and the Community Oncology Alliance’s (COA’s) Oncology Medical Home model are ...

Experience with risk-based contracting best predicts active engagement of accountable care organizations in reducing low-value medical services, mainly through physician education and encouraging ...

A new consensus report on how to reform the healthcare delivery system has some important implications for health IT. The report, entitled Better to Best: Value Driving Elements of the Patient ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medical Home Network REACH ACO is partnering with community health centers in New York and Oklahoma under CMS’s new ACO REACH model, a value-based payment model with an ...

Transportation, housing, and food insecurity are cited as patients' most common nonmedical needs. Research published in the journal Health Affairs indicates that accountable care organizations are ...