Accountable Care Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News               February, 2017  
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  “If you look around the globe, the one common denominator in all successful healthcare systems (in the sense that they deliver good outcomes for a reasonable cost) is that they all have universal access to comprehensive primary care. Multiple studies show that if you increase the ratio of primary care doctors to a population, their morbidity and mortality go down; whereas, if you increase the ratio of specialists, those measures actually go up. No one wants to be sick, and people don’t enjoy getting healthcare, so that primary care, when it works correctly, helps keep people out of trouble so that they don’t have to get late and unnecessary care that is expensive and can be harmful.”
- Erika Bliss, M.D., serves as CEO/co-owner of Qliance Management Inc., and president of Qliance Medical Group of Washington DC.
 
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"In recent years, the percentage of covered workers enrolled in a self-funded plan has remained steady: Sixty percent of covered workers were in such an arrangement in 2011—similar to the 61% in 2016."

Excerpted from: Accountable Care News, Volume 8 Number 2, February 2017, "Provider-Led Health Plans Emerge in the Age of ACA Repeal."

 
What's News
  Early Performance in Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations
JAMA Internal Medicine, February 13, 2017
 
     
  Behavioral health provider switches EHR to prep for accountable care
Health Data Management, February 9, 2017
 
     
Technology Support for Accountable Care Success
Health System Management, February 6, 2017
     
State Medicaid Programs Invest in Accountable Care Organizations
HealthPayer Intelligence, February 2, 2017
     
  CMS announces 45 ACOs are now participating in Next Generation model
Healthcare Finance News, January 20, 2017
 
     
  Repeal of Obamacare could cut accountable care organizations
Health Data Management, January 17, 2017
 
 
This Month in Accountable Care News
  • Provider-Led Health Plans Emerge in the Age of ACA Repeal by Jack Hill and Bret Petrick, CLU, ChFC, CSFS
  • Key Strategies Position Providers to Manage Alternative Payment Models by Mike Peresie
  • Premier Patient Healthcare ACO Leverages Medicare Annual Wellness Visits by Michael Camacho
  • Primary Care Physician Owned, Operated ACOs Drive Collaboration, Competition by Yasser T. Hammoud, M.D.
  • Thought Leaders' Corner: How Can ACOs Become More Efficient?
  • Industry News with briefs regarding Johns Hopkins Medicine Alliance for Patients, Sharp HealthCare, and ACO Partner.
  • Catching Up With... Erika Bliss, M.D.
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