The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced ( Jan. 15 that it will host a webinar Jan. 29 on its new accountable care organization model, the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design Model.

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

Thousands of Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare will soon be able to get care through a unique local business that's intended to contain spiraling medical costs by giving patients more ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has released its latest accountable care organization model, which is scheduled to launch at the conclusion of ACO Reach next year. The LEAD (Long-term ...

Scott Becker, JD, CPA, is a partner at McGuireWoods in Chicago. Q: During the Aug. 2 webinar on “ASCs: the State of the Industry; Consolidation vs. Independent; How to Work With Service Providers; ...

Healthcare reform was all about the patients: It’s there in the name: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. So when federal legislators passed the PPACA and formalized the accountable care ...

As hospitals and physician groups prepare to launch accountable care organizations and similar payment models, surgery centers are left to ponder their role in the post-health reform world. Marc ...

October 10, 2024 – For several years, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been working towards a goal it set in 2021 to ...

Accountable care organizations in the ACO Reach program can claim credit for saving the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hundreds of millions of dollars. ACO Reach participants racked up ...

Essential value-based care competencies include robust data analytics, a compliance approach to coding, and an understanding of what makes an ACO successful at the clinic and individual provider level ...