As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) strives to improve and expand accountable care organization (ACO) ...

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 ...

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; ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has released its latest accountable care organization model, which is scheduled to launch at the conclusion of ACO Reach next year. The LEAD (Long-term ...

As healthcare facilities in other states grapple with the advent of accountable care organizations, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has been busy forming his own version of ACOs: state-run “coordinated ...

Healthcare reform was all about the patients: It’s there in the name: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. So when federal legislators passed the PPACA and formalized the accountable care ...

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 ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Forming an accountable care organization must not be a hasty decision. Before committing to partnerships within a parochial healthcare network, all the players must know the stakes, the options ...