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Beyond ‘Repeal and Replace’: Physicians Renew The Call For Delivery System Improvement
Growth Of ACOs And Alternative Payment Models In 2017
Savings Reported By CMS Do Not Measure True ACO Savings
Diffusion Of Innovations In Health Care—Obtaining Evidence To Move Faster
The Future Of Delivery System Reform
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Beyond ‘Repeal and Replace’: Physicians Renew The Call For Delivery System Improvement
The last few months have been an anxious time in health care policy with calls to repeal, replace, repair, and delay repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Daily, elected officials face angry constituents fearful of losing their coverage. What is clear...
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Growth Of ACOs And Alternative Payment Models In 2017
Accountable care is an important mechanism used by public and private payers to align health care provider payments with efficient care for defined patient populations. Leavitt Partners, in partnership with the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative...
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Savings Reported By CMS Do Not Measure True ACO Savings
While participation in Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) continues to grow—9 million Medicare beneficiaries are currently attributed to Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs alone, up 1.3 million since 2016 —controversy...
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Diffusion Of Innovations In Health Care—Obtaining Evidence To Move Faster
We are living in an extraordinary time in health care. Amid unsustainable rising health care costs that did not deliver commensurate value or quality of care, a remarkable transformation in health care payment was put in motion over the past decade. A...
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The Future Of Delivery System Reform
Over the past several years, the federal government has put billions of dollars into a variety of programs aimed at improving the way health care is delivered. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorized a broad agenda of reform projects, including accountable...
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Obstacles On The Road To Risk
The Billings Clinic, with its storied reputation as one of the nation’s leading physician-led, clinically integrated health systems, is viewed by many in our industry as an exemplar of where health care is heading. Clinically integrated for more than...
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Wed, Feb 02 2017 7:30 AM
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Billings clinic
Weaving Whole-Person Health Throughout An Accountable Care Framework: The Social ACO
Editor’s note: This is part of a periodic series of Health Affairs Blog posts discussing the Culture of Health , the topic of a November Health Affairs theme issue . In 2014 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced its Culture of Health initiative...
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Wed, Jan 01 2017 9:00 AM
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The Payment Reform Landscape: Early Progress And The Need For Better Tools To Measure Impact
The release on October 25, 2016 of results from the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network’s (LAN) data collection effort was a milestone in the national effort to move from legacy payment systems to alternative models. It underscores the nationwide...
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Fri, Jan 01 2017 7:45 AM
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Building A System That Works: The Future Of Health Care
Nearly a century after Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party first called for health insurance reform, the United States has made major advances in access, quality, and affordability. In the six years since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act...
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The All-Payer Accountable Care Organization Model: An Opportunity For Vermont And An Exemplar For The Nation
The first of its kind in the nation, the all-payer accountable care organization (ACO) model allows Vermont the opportunity to create a transformative payment model that moves all payers (Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial) towards a prospective, value...
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Tue, Nov 11 2016 8:00 AM
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Age-Friendly Health Systems: How Do We Get There?
As the American population ages, our health care delivery system must embrace significant changes in payment strategies, as well as value-based service provision, to meet the demands of this demographic shift. Health care leaders are clear that without...
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How Are Hospital-Based ACOs Addressing Community Health?
As Risa Lavizzo-Mourey , president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), noted earlier this year, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are no longer the “mythical unicorn creatures” they once were. In just six short years following the...
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By Spinning Early Results, CMS May Be Undermining Payment Reform
A recent press release by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) summarizes the 2015 Results for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model by stating that “physicians, hospitals, and health...
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Fri, Oct 10 2016 7:46 AM
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Improving Outcomes for Justice-Involved Individuals With Lessons From Veterans Programs
Over 10 million individuals were incarcerated in the United States at some point in 2014 . Incarcerated individuals are disproportionately poor, black, and homeless , and suffer from higher rates of mental illness , substance use disorders , and chronic...
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Medicare ACOs: Incremental Progress, But Performance Varies
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released financial and quality performance data for its accountable care organization (ACO) programs for the fourth performance year (PY4) of the Pioneer ACO Program and third performance year...
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Wed, Sep 09 2016 9:00 AM
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