Accountable Care Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News                           June, 2015  
      
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Primary Care ACOs and Payment Reform
 

State Experiences and Existing Approaches for Regulating ACOs

In this panel at a UC Berkeley workshop on May 8th, speakers summarize existing approaches for regulating ACOs among those states that have the most experience and innovation in this area.  Includes perspectives from New York, Texas, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.  Speakers address anti-competitive behavior, quality of care, network adequacy, and reporting requirements.  Speakers also consider the various successes and failures of alternative regulatory approaches.

 
 
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RevCycleIntelligence.com: Healthcare Experts’ Top 5 Accountable Care Organization Tips

1. ACO success requires engagement and alignment

2. The most successful ACOs embrace a clinical transformation

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Source: RevCycleIntelligence.com, June 3, 2015
Source URL: http://revcycleintelligence.com/news/healthcare-experts-top-5-accountable-care-organization-tips

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This Month in Accountable Care News
 
  • The CMS Next Generation ACO Model – Will It Increase Medical Malpractice Risk? by Susan Huntington
  • Challenges with Measuring Savings in Shared Savings Arrangements by Jill Herbold, FSA, MAAA and Anders Larson, FSA, MAAA
  • Editor’s Corner: Dave Ehrenberger, MD on PCMH-Powered Family Physicians
  • Effective Population Health Management Delivers Sustained Medicare Star Improvement by Saeed Aminzadeh
  • Thought Leader’s Corner: "Could Section 512 of the legislation repealing the SGR be a big deal for ACOs? How might it affect CMS revenue paid to ACOs? How would you amend the rules?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and CMMI.
  • Catching Up with….Tricia McGinnis, MPP, MPH
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