Many health care provider organizations have not been overly eager to jump onto the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) bandwagon, citing high startup costs and uncertain returns on investment given ...

As the U.S. healthcare system continues its shift away from fee-for-service (FFS) toward value-based care (VBC), the prevalence of advanced alternative payment models is increasing. Bundled payments ...

Will you be ready to have 90% of payments tied to quality metrics by the end of 2018? It is clear that CMS plans to achieve a goal of having 50% of all payments made through Alternative Payment Models ...

Many providers are finding they don’t yet have the resources to participate in or take on the risks associated with accountable care organizations. But it’s not an all-or-nothing situation. In fact, ...

Engaging specialty physicians is an emerging area of focus for Medicare accountable care organizations. Enhanced data on specialist costs and outcomes are essential to addressing alignment challenges.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just announced the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative. On August 23, 2011, CMS invited providers to apply to help test and develop four ...

Accountable Care Organizations are struggling to find specialists to improve value-based care, although it is a top priority Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Meanwhile, ACOs face ...

August 24, 2011 — Physicians would get reimbursed by an admitting hospital instead of by Medicare for inpatient care they deliver to seniors, under 1 of 4 models of pilot projects for bundled payments ...