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Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News June, 2017

Hospital Network Formation – A Growing Alternative to Mergers

"The current, widespread uncertainty in Washington makes it exceedingly difficult for any business to operate. Plans, providers and patients deserve to know the basic rules of the road... Businesses need certainty to plan for a stable, competitive market, and consumers need time to plan how and where they will get their coverage and care."
- Ceci Connolly, president/CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP).

"The number one reason for filing personal bankruptcies in this country (62.1% of filers) is medical debt. Having insurance was not very protective, as three-quarters of those who filed for bankruptcy for medical debt had insurance."

Excerpted from: Accountable Care News, Volume 8 Number 6, June 2017, "Learning From Example: Other Countries Could Teach the United States a Thing or Two," by Kent Holtorf, M.D.

How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare

How to run a successful accountable care organisation (ACO)

Americans Stephen Rosenthal, Chief Operating Officer at Montefiore Health System and Herb Fillmore, Senior Director, Market Development, Populations and Payment Solutions at 3M, discuss how to run a successful accountable care organisation. Stephen discusses how Montefiore implemented their accountable care organisation model and provides valuable lessons for those in England as they start to develop sustainability and transformation partnerships into accountable care organisations and systems.

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	Seth Edwards: Six Reasons Why the Time is Right for a Medicare ACO 1. MACRA reporting through a Medicare ACO reduces administrative burden and provides preferential scoring across each of the reporting categories 2. Test and gain experience from a value-based payment model without taking actuarial down-side risk 3. Continue reading here Source: Action for Better Healthcare

Four Strategies Help Improve RCM Efficiency, Patient Experience by Eric Krepfle
Community Program Unites Paramedics, EMS Services for Health Improvement by Janet Coffman, Ph.D. and Alicia LaFrance, MPH, MSW
What's On Your Mind: Learning From Example: Other Countries Could Teach the United States a Thing or Two by Kent Holtorf, M.D.
Electronic Clinical Quality Measures: Are We Ready Yet? by Kathy Lesh, Ph.D., EdM, M.S., RN-BC, CPHQ
Industry News with briefs regarding Phoenix Children's Care Network, Anthem Blue Cross, Capital Blue Cross, Pacific Business Group on Health, Collaborative Health Systems Partners and Curant Health.
Catching Up With... Ceci Connolly




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