Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician groups and integrated delivery systems to improve the quality and efficiency of care for patients in ...

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 ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, recently released a request for applications seeking accountable care organizations (ACOs) to engage ...

To achieve longer accountable relationships, a bridge from one insurer to another could be built through continuity of accountability amid insurance transitions, improved risk prediction, and ...

The authors call for policy reforms that could strengthen patient-provider relationships, support care innovation, and improve quality for Medicare beneficiaries. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) ...

A quick reference guide for employers. Accountable care models. Clinically-integrated networks. Patient-centered medical homes. Even if you’re familiar with the world of healthcare and health benefits ...

Medicaid enrollees in Oregon are less likely to make unscheduled trips to the hospital following the implementation of the state's accountable-care model -- which researchers from Oregon State ...

Healthcare IT is critical as hospitals begin to make the change from delivering volume-based care, to delivering value-based care. While many people have questions about how these accountable care ...

The co-branded product, called Aetna Whole Health-Duke Health & WakeMed, brings together Duke Health and WakeMed physicians, hospitals and outpatient facilities, as well as WakeMed Key Community Care ...

Medicare is trying again with another accountable care organization (ACO) payment model aimed at primary care doctors, but reactions to the new model are mixed so far. The voluntary model, known as ...