The focus of the national media and sites such as this one has been on the promise of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to transform the American healthcare delivery system in a way that the ...

Hospitals and health systems around the county are entering accountable care organizations to improve the delivery of care. However, as hospitals enter these arrangements, they will be faced with ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

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 ...

The IRS denied tax exemption earlier this month to an unnamed nonprofit health system's accountable care organization because it was formed with commercial payers, according to law firm Drinker Biddle ...

This is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

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 ...

National ACO LLC (NACO), a physician owned and operated health care company based in Beverly Hills California, and RISARC, a healthcare consulting company based in Burbank, California, have announced ...

Forming an accountable care organization must not be a hasty decision. Before committing to partnerships within a parochial healthcare network, all the players must know the stakes, the options ...

The Biden administration has finalized a rule targeting fraudulent billing in Medicare’s largest value-based care program, after concerning reports of spiking spending on urinary catheters. The ...