Accountable Care Organization

For patients in a participating ACO, one of the initial improvements for facilities will be the assignment of a care manager to guide and support them through the ACO experience. The care manager may be...

Without solid research about how discharged hospital patients fare in various post-acute settings, cautious doctors are ordering more intensive and expensive care than is needed, according to medical experts...

COMS Interactive has added two clients. Kairos, a group purchasing network with more than 100 facilities, and Torrance Memorial Medical Center’s Transitional Care Unit have both selected COMS’...

Providers can learn the best practices to jump into an accountable care organization in “Ensuring Your Place in an Accountable Care Network. This webinar will be at 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday,...

Long-term care providers must have a collaborative mindset if they want to join an accountable care organization, according to a panel of experts at the LINK LTC & Senior Living Conference. Top executives...

If you hang around long enough, you learn there are only two things long-term care providers fear after Republicans and Democrats. That would be hospitals and doctors.

Data collected by a management consulting firm showed that approximately 2.4 million Medicare beneficiaries received care via different Medicare ACO programs run by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

One of the first care coordination demonstration projects for Medicare beneficiaries achieved significant provider savings for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, a new analysis found.

Bundled payments mean that you can’t escape the numbers. Hospitals want the data on why you’re the best choice for post-acute care.

Despite a somewhat rocky start, Medicare beneficiaries have been supportive of accountable care organizations, a government official said.