Accountable Care Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News            August, 2014  
 
Third Annual Readmissions Web Summit - 2014
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Building a Clinical Mobility Infrastructure to Support Accountable Care

This 2-part webinar, hosted by HIMSS, discusses how to get the right information to the right clinician in real time and in a secure manner. Michael J. Rice PhD, APRN, RN FAAN discusses Reducing Readmission Costs: Focus on Point of Care Technology Solutions. Philllip G. Haritos discusses Healthcare Mobility.

 
 
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Deborah L. Feinstein: Four design features of ACOs that raise red flags for antitrust agencies

1. preventing payers from steering patients to certain providers
2. tying sales of the ACO’s services to the private payer’s purchase of other services from providers outside the ACO
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Source: "Antitrust Enforcement in Health Care: Proscription, not Prescription," Fifth National Accountable Care Organization Summit – Washington, DC, June 19, 2014
Source URL: http://1.usa.gov/1oMqFh8

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This Month in Accountable Care News
 
  • Integrating Home Health and Primary Care to Create the Care Model of the Future by Kathleen Gardner
  • ACOs and the HR Department by Thomas P. Merrill
  • Editor’s Corner: Stephen Ubl on New Payment Models
  • How to Best Manage Post-Acute Care Expenditures: Strategic Networks Can Improve Patient Care and Curb Costs by Michelle Templin
  • Thought Leader’s Corner: "What are the challenges you have experienced or seen in working with the potential partners in the ACO’s “medical neighborhood” -- home health, post-acute, hospice, urgent care, retail pharmacy, etc.?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding CMS; The Commonwealth Fund; Health Affairs; Cigna; Anthem, Sutter, Brown & Toland; National Health Policy Forum; Providence Health & Services and Swedish Medical Center; CVS Caremark; Center for Health Care Strategies; BlueCross BlueShield Association; MedPAC; National Academy for State Health Policy; The Accountable Care Coalition of Greater New York (ACCGNY) and Allazo Health; and Becker's Hospital Review.
  • Catching Up with…. Lisa Bielamowicz, MD
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