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Defining the Accountable [Health] Care Organization
ACO Glossary of Terms from CMS, etc By Staff Reporters According to Wikipedia, an Accountable Care Organization, or ACO for short, is a health system model with the ability to provide and manage...
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Take the Accountable Care Act Survey
Please Vote QUERY: Should the Supreme Court decide the future of the Accountable Care Act? Take Our Poll Conclusion And so, your thoughts and comments on this ME-P are appreciated. Feel free to...
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Proposed Federal Regulations for ACOs
Comment Period Still Open ADVERTISEMENT By Garfunkel * Wild PC As ME-P readers may know, the much anticipated proposed federal regulations on accountable care organizations (ACOs) were published on...
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Establishing Your Medical Practice’s Fair Market Value
Part One of Medical Practice Valuation By Dr. David Edward Marcinko, MBA, CMP By Professor Hope Rachel Hetico, RN, MHA, CMP www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org In recent years, the physician practice...
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Health Plans and the Three Levers of Innovation for Affordable Care
Unlocking Affordable Care Number 2 in a Series of 6 By Sam Muppalla – Vice President, McKesson Health Solutions, Network Performance Management (NPM) Last week, for the ME-P, I wrote about the...
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An Integrated Approach to Healthcare Network Alignment and Scalable Innovation
More on Healthcare Network Design and Automation Part 5 in a 6 part series By Sam Muppalla – Vice President, McKesson Health Solutions Network Performance Management Previously, on this ME-P, I wrote...
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Ground Breaking Book Explains Why Accountable Care Organizations May Be the...
Book Reviews, with Testimonial, by ME-P Founding Publisher Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP® PRESS RELEASE! August 23, 2013 – CRC Press / Productivity Press is pleased to announce the publication of...
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The State of Value Based Care [VBC]
In the USA By http://www.MCOL.com *** *** Conclusion Your thoughts and comments on this ME-P are appreciated. Feel free to review our top-left column, and top-right sidebar materials, links, URLs and...
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PODCAST: “Real ACOs Haven’t Been Tried Yet!”
What is an Accountable Care Organization? DEFINITION: ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care to...
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PODCAST: Traditional Medicare Hospital Value Based Payments Explained
THREE CATEGORIES OF VBC By Eric Bricker MD Medicare Value-Based Payments (also Called Alternative Payment Models) to Hospitals Fall Into 3 Main Categories: PODCAST:...
View Article42.7% of Physicians are in Practices that Participate in Commercial ACOs
ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS By Staff Reporters *** 42.7% of physicians in practices that participated in a commercial ACO An AMA survey of 3,500 physicians finds steady growth of physician...
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CASH FLOW ANALYSIS: Real Life ACO Accounting Example
ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION EXAMPLE BY DR. DAVID EDWARD MARCINKO MBA CMP® SPONSOR: http://www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org What is an ACO? ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care...
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77% of Surveyed ACOs Use 6 or More EHR Systems
By Staff Reporters *** 77% of Surveyed ACOs Use 6 or More EHR Systems *** According to a recent AJMC survey of 163 MSSP ACOs • Just 9% of surveyed ACOs use a single EHR system throughout their...
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CMS: MSSP ACO Growth 2012-2022
By Staff Reporters *** DEFINITION: An accountable care organization is a healthcare organization that ties provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the cost of care. ACOs in the...
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Can Doctors Afford to Retire Early – TODAY?
By Staff Reporters *** You’ve got a sense of your ideal retirement age. And you’ve probably made certain plans based on that timeline. But what if you’re forced to retire sooner than you expect? Aging...
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Most Physician Compensation Plans Still Productivity-Based
By Health Capital Consultants, LLC *** Study: Most Physician Compensation Plans Still Productivity-Based A study conducted by the RAND Corporation and published in the January 2022 issue of the...
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ACCOUNTABLE CARE: Competitive Market for Talent is Biggest Challenge in...
By Staff Reporters DEFINITION: An accountable care organization (ACO) is a group of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that work together on your care. Their goal is to give you — and...
View ArticleACO Home-Visit Initiatives
ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS By MCOL and Charlene Ice *** ACOs That Offer 6 Primary Care Services home-based primary care: 37%care coordination: 24%care transitions support: 13%addressing social...
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Beneficiaries Assigned to MSSP ACOs
Number of Beneficiaries Assigned to MSSP ACOs, 2012-2013 to 2022 By Charlene Ice *** *** 2012/2013: 3.2 million2014: 4.9 million2015: 7.3 million2016: 7.7 million2017: 9 million2018: 10.5 million2019:...
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Valuation of Accountable Care Organizations: Competitive Environment
By Health Capital Consultants, LLC *** *** As of the first quarter of 2022, 1,010 accountable care organizations (ACOs), comprising 1,760 private and public ACO contracts that covered 32 million...
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