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Accountable Care Bulletin
| May 10, 2011
| Volume Two Issue
Five
Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News
www.accountablecarenews.com
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"If ACOs are managed effectively, the patient experience in an ACO
should be far superior. But the current version of the ACO regs includes
a perverse incentive for ACOs to avoid new, sick patients because of the
3 year risk adjustment lock in. It is very understandable and
appropriate that CMS does not want a model in which they pay out shared
savings because providers improved their diagnosis coding but didn’t
really get more efficient. However, if this is not addressed differently
in the final rules, ACOs will be penalized for attracting new enrollees
who are very ill. This will make it less likely for them to invest in
being responsive to the needs of very ill populations, leading to less
satisfied patients and a huge missed opportunity." Ann Robinow,
President, Robinow Health Care Consulting |
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Contracts Should Spell out Everyone's Role in an ACO
American Medical News, May 9, 2011
Balance of Better Care, Privacy in Federal ACO Proposal
California Healthline, May 9, 2011
How IRS Guidance Addresses ACO Participation for Exempt Hospitals
JD Supra, May 9, 2011
Doctors' Group Calls Rules ‘Stingy'
The Desert Sun, May 5, 2011
Medical Device Industry Warns About "Cheapest is Best" ACO Model
DOTmed, April 27, 2011
Primary Care Focus Key to ACO Success, Group Says
MedPage Today, April 14, 2011
In an ACO, Who's Accountable?
HealthLeaders Media, April 14, 2011
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In
the May issue of Accountable Care News, you'll find: |
- Staying Accountable
in Accountable Care - How one ACO maintains clinical and
financial alignment - by Rosaleen Derington, Kristen
Miranda, and Mary Carol Todd
- Hospital-Physician
Alignment: Managing Change in the Shifting Health Care
Environment by Frank Marshall
Editor’s Corner - Charles A. Coleman, PhD, CMPH,
Worldwide Healthcare Solutions Senior Executive --
Providers/ACO/Bio-Surveillance/Clinical Research AMRC,
IBM
- Accountable Care
Organizations – Pediatric Care by Thomas F. Long, MD
- Thought Leader’s
Corner - "What methods can be used for doctors to
raise capital for their ACO without having to rely
exclusively on hospitals?"
- Industry News
with briefs regarding Becker's Hospital Review, Modern
Healthcare, George Washington University School of
Public Health, Care Continuum Alliance, Health Affairs
and HealthLeaders Media
- Catching Up with….
Ann Robinow
Accountable Care News on April 4 released a special complimentary
edition containing detailed expert analysis of the proposal CMS
rule on ACOs as well as the FTC/DOJ, IRS, and HHS OIG guidance
documents.
Click here for the document.
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