Accountable Care Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News            November, 2013  
 
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 New Hope for Primary Care: The Accountable Primary Care Model
 
 

New Hope for Primary Care: The Accountable Primary Care Model

Tom Doerr, MD, Director of Innovation Research at Lumeris and Deborah W. Robin, MD, MHCM, Medical Director at Lumeris, present at a National Accountable Care Congress (ACO) Breakout Session. Dr. Robin discusses the premises and key elements of success for ACOs. Dr. Doerr illustrates some of the outcomes of accountable care practices and provides a walk-through of the accountable care model.

 
 
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Alvarez & Marsal: 9 ACO Implementation Challenges

1. An Electronic Medical Record does not imply inter-operability, analytics, performance and risk management.
2. Primary care physicians, the linchpins of ACOs, remain overworked, underpaid and in short supply.
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Source: Alvarez & Marsal/A&M Healthcare Insights, October 29, 2013
Source URL: http://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/am-healthcare-insights-good-intentions-and-challenging-implementation-acos

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This Month in Accountable Care News
 
  • The Year of the Provider-Sponsored Health Plan by Kevin Weinstein
  • Eliminating Health Disparities by Filling the Digital Health Investor Knowledge Gap: An Opportunity for Medicaid ACOs by Andrey Ostrovsky, MD
  • Editor’s Corner: Manish Sharma and Shyam Manoj on Making ACOs a Reality
  • How ACOs Can Prevent Avoidable Hospital Admissions by Matt Adamson
  • Thought Leader’s Corner: "Will shared-savings ACO arrangements, increased market share, and lower variable costs generate enough revenue for hospitals to offset lost utilization?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding CMS; Cigna; and Highmark
  • Catching Up with….The Latest ACO Infographics
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