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.

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 ...

Last month, health insurer Florida Blue partnered with Coral Gables, Fla.-based health system Baptist Health South Florida and Miami-based oncology group Advanced Medical Specialties to form an ...

The final Accountable Care Organization regulations are out, the initial flurry of commentary is out (including my own ACO webinar with simultaneous #ACOchat tweetchat - available for replay; slides ...

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 only accountable care organization catering to long-term care residents finds its future uncertain as its owner, Genesis HealthCare, navigates bankruptcy. LTC ACO represents more than 30,000 ...

Changes announced to ACO REACH model for 2025 and 2026 will disincentivize providers from achieving meaningful improvements across the quintuple aim, according to Gary Jacobs, executive director at ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...