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 ...

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 ...

“These findings suggest that Medicaid ACOs hold promise in improving some maternal health outcomes,” lead author Megan B.

Scott Becker, JD, CPA, is a partner at McGuireWoods in Chicago. Q: During the Aug. 2 webinar on “ASCs: the State of the Industry; Consolidation vs. Independent; How to Work With Service Providers; ...

Thousands of Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare will soon be able to get care through a unique local business that's intended to contain spiraling medical costs by giving patients more ...

Collaborative ACOs and value-based care models help include rural providers, achieving shared savings despite resource limitations and inappropriate spending benchmarks. ACOs serving patients with ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...

Current medical news and unique business news for anyone who cares about the healthcare industry. Trouble ahead for ACOs? The fee-for-service payment system represents a serious threat to the adoption ...

Somnia Anesthesia has issued a news release in which the national anesthesia services company defined what it is terming an “Accountable Anesthesia Organization™” (AAO). Somnia describes an AAO as a ...

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- New research on Mental Health Diseases and Conditions- Postpartum Depression is the subject of a report. According to news reporting ...