Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An ACO is an Accountable Care Organization and there is certainly a risk that if physicians don't prepare for ...

Marc Bard, MD, chief innovation officer in the healthcare practice of Navigant Consulting, is the co-author of the recently published white paper, “Accountable Care Organizations and Payment Reform: ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program lets healthcare providers form or join Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to coordinate higher-quality care to Medicare beneficiaries while helping reduce costs.

New goals from CMS and a new law, MACRA, will bring more change in 2016. But patients remain the same-even with new technology and electronic medical records, getting them to invest in their own care ...

Ray Chicoine, COO of Monarch Healthcare, a 2,500-physician independent practice organization (IPA) in Orange County, Calif., discusses Monarch’s efforts to develop an accountable care organization in ...

Ken Arvin, Esq., Vice President Ambulatory Services for Sheridan Healthcare, discusses the impact of accountable care organizations on ambulatory surgery centers and what administrators can do to ...

ACOs, Medicare Advantage and other value-based care forms may look complex, but the bottom line is still profitability. Once upon a time, Accountable Care Organizations were going to be the knight in ...

In the short time that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have formally been a part of the health care landscape, they have grown to cover more than 32 million patients across every state in the ...

Though accountable care organizations have been around for more than a decade, their effectiveness at reducing healthcare costs remains a highly debated issue, prompting impassioned condemnations and ...

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 ...

In a presentation at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 10, Andrew Hayek, president and CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates and chairman of the ...