Accountable Care Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News                   July 24, 2012  
 
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Cigna CEO David Cordani Discusses "Collaborative Accountable Care"
 
 

Cigna CEO David Cordani Discusses "Collaborative Accountable Care"

Cigna President and Chief Executive Officer David Cordani talks about the company's collaborative accountable care initiatives. The CAC program is designed to achieve the "triple aim" of better health care quality, lower total medical costs and improved patient satisfaction -- the same population health goals of accountable care organizations, or ACOs.
 

 
 
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Philip Betbeze: CMS Announcement of 89 New ACOs is Important, But Not Because...

1 .It reflects a validation of the process by which the government hopes to get better value for the dollars they spend on Medicare beneficiaries
2. It reflects a validation of the contention that routing patients through so-called accountable care organizations will save money
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Source: HealthLeaders Media
Source URL: http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/page-1/LED-282312/ACOs-Real-Test-Will-Come-with-TwoSided-Risk

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This Month in Accountable Care News
 
  • Pediatric Accountable Care Organizations: Can a Senior Citizen Solution Be Applied to a Pediatric Population? by Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD, MPH
  • Translating ACO Quality Measures into Clinical Processes by Daniel J. Marino
  • Editor's Corner Report from the Field: Renal ACO: A Model for Care Coordination - Alan R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
  • ACO Data Flows under HIPAA by Mark S. Hedberg, Esq
  • Thought Leader's Corner: "What characteristics of an ACO will please patients? What characteristics will confuse or frustrate them?"
  • Industry News with briefs regarding CMS; Leavitt Partners; AMGA and Press Ganey; IBM and Premier; The Advisory Board Company; and Aetna and Inova Health System
  • Catching Up With?. David B. Nash, MD, MBA 
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