Complimentary from the publisher

Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News February 13, 2013

"Organizations that look at ACOs as a new payment model pursue a payer-driven strategy of looking at healthcare as a risk management problem, with all process redesign efforts focused on population risk management. Organizations that see ACOs as a new care model focus on keeping the patient healthy and avoiding high cost events (hospitalizations). Primary care becomes the ‘holy grail’ in the population care management strategy." Jay Reddy, MBA, Founder and CEO, PCSI Solutions

"Roughly half of all ACOs are physician-led organizations that serve fewer than 10,000 beneficiaries. Approximately 20 percent of ACOs include community health centers, rural health centers and critical access hospitals that serve low-income and rural communities."

From: More Doctors, Hospitals Partner to Coordinate Care for People with Medicare, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Press Release, January 10, 2013

The Nine C's of Successful Accountable Primary Care Delivery
The Health Care Blog, February 4, 2013

HIT Policy Committee to Form Accountable Care Workgroup
Becker's Hospital Review, February 1, 2013

Patient empowerment: Next step in accountable care
Hospital Impact, January 30, 2013

Disease-specific ACOs make their debut
American Medical News, January 28, 2013

28 Statistics on Providers and ACO Development
Becker's Hospital Review, January 22, 2013

Antitrust concerns with Accountable Care Organizations
Enterprise Counsel Group, January 17, 2013

Medicare announces 106 new accountable care organizations
The Boston Globe, January 10, 2013

ACOs and Long-Term Care: It’s all about Readmissions! by Neal M. Bilimoria, Esq
Why the Resurgence in Disease Registries? by Charles A. Coleman, Jr., PhD, CMPH
Editor’s Corner - Raymond Carter, Senior Editor
Enabling Analytics for Successful Accountable Care by Rodger Smith, Krishna Daliparthi, David Hom, Tamim Ahmed, PhD, MBA, and Phillip Fiero
Thought Leader’s Corner: “A recent Zynx Health audit gave 100 provider groups seeking to become ACOs a collective grade of D-minus on their use of
key clinical processes when treating pneumonia and heart failure. Is this a fair assessment? If so, what needs to be done?”
Industry News with briefs regarding CMS, CMMI, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) and Texas Health Resources, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Collaborative Health Systems, The Commonwealth Fund and the National Academy for State Health Policy, AMA's Journal of Ethics, and The Center for Health System Change and The California HealthCare Foundation
Catching Up with…. Charles A. Coleman, Jr., PhD, CMPH

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