Many healthcare leaders are strategizing to meet the requirements of section3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This historic passage of legislation to reform our nation’s ...

This Perspective discusses the fiscal challenge facing Medicare and how that challenge may be differentially met by fee-for-service, accountable care organization (ACO), and Medicare Advantage (MA) ...

ACOs managing complex populations face challenges like patient attribution, irrelevant quality measures, and financial constraints, requiring tailored strategies for effective care delivery.

Many rural providers, like critical access hospitals, rely on cost-based reimbursement or flat, encounter-based payments like ...

Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs) represent a major evolution in Medicare payment reform, transitioning from volume-based fee-for-service towards value-based accountability. ACOs are networks of ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...