One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

Last year saw a sharp acceleration in new models of value-based care launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

In April, Lumeris unveiled its Accountable Primary Care Model, also known as the Nine C’s. The Nine C’s are a framework for primary care physicians to guide them to deliver the triple aim of ...

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 ...

To achieve longer accountable relationships, a bridge from one insurer to another could be built through continuity of accountability amid insurance transitions, improved risk prediction, and ...

Medicare Advantage patients treated in value-based care models saw better outcomes than those treated in fee-for-service models, according to a new study. Researchers led by a team at Optum examined ...

Healthcare reform was all about the patients: It’s there in the name: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. So when federal legislators passed the PPACA and formalized the accountable care ...

As hospitals and physician groups prepare to launch accountable care organizations and similar payment models, surgery centers are left to ponder their role in the post-health reform world. Marc ...

Healthcare IT is critical as hospitals begin to make the change from delivering volume-based care, to delivering value-based care. While many people have questions about how these accountable care ...

Even though accountable care organizations are a somewhat new care delivery model, they have made quite an impact on the world of healthcare already. New commercial ACOs are announced on a regular ...

The American Journal of Managed Care ® (AJMC ®), the leading peer-reviewed journal dedicated to topics in managed care, proudly announces Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, MPH, as the keynote speaker for this ...

A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine–Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University School of Public Health finds that how ...