Healthcare Town Hall

Yesterday, Health & Human Services announced 89 new accountable care organizations (ACOs), doubling the number of Medicare ACOs.

With this in mind we’ve pulled together all of our ACO research into a single location. Here you go:

• Accountable care organizations: The new provider model
• Controlling healthcare costs the old, new way
• The Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations
• Building an accountable care information system
• The nurse’s role in accountable care
• Nuts and bolts of ACO financial and operational success
• Evidence-based guidelines: Essential building blocks for accountable care
• ACO gain/loss sharing
• Patient attribution in ACOs
• ACOs and medical professional liability
• Milliman’s announcement that it has been selected for a Society of Actuaries-sponsored ACO research study

 
Also, this video offers a nice overview of the ACO concept.

Electronic Health Records ACOs, Bill O'Brien, George Berry, Helen Blumen, Kate Fitch, Patty Jones, Rich Moyer, Richard Kipp, Rob Parke, Susan Pantely, Victoria Boyarski

Physicians and hospitals are facing unprecedented pressure from healthcare purchasers to deliver higher-quality, more cost-effective care. This paper discusses how it will be increasingly difficult for individual providers to continue without joining a larger integrated system. For many of these emerging systems, a partnership with a health plan will be much more attractive than becoming an accountable care organization (ACO) serving Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries.

Cost, Quality of Care ACOs, David Mirkin, Howard Kahn, Rob Parke, Victoria Boyarski