16 results.
Can Accountable Care Organizations Improve the Value of Health Care by Solving the Cost and Quality Quandaries?
Author: Devers, Kelly; Berenson, Robert
Source: External web site
Publication Date: October 02, 2009
"This policy brief [published by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] explores what ACO are, how they compare to previous reform concepts such as Health Maintenance Organizations and Provider Sponsored Organizations, key design and implementation issues, and opportunities and challenges."
Accountable Care Organizations: a new model for sustainable innovation
Author: Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
Source: External web site
Publication Date: February 15, 2011
This study addresses how adoption of ACOs might impact organizations, and what organizations should know about this innovation in health care delivery.
Raising the Bar: Standards for Accountable Care Organizations to Truly Improve Health Care Quality and Affordability in the United States
Author: Pacific Business Group on Health
Source: External web site
Publication Date: March 02, 2011
Medicare Program; Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations [proposed rule]
Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: April 07, 2011
Risks and Rewards of ACOs
Author: Martin, Timothy D
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: April 2011
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 calls for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to create a Medicare “shared savings” program, which will encourage the development of accountable care organizations. ACOs will be eligible to receive additional payments if t....
ACO Primer: Reviewing the Proposed Rule on Accountable Care Organizations
Author: White, Susan E; Kallem, Crystal; Viola, Allison F.; Bronnert, June
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2011
In April the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a notice of proposed rulemaking for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The program was mandated by the Affordable Care Act to encourage the development of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in Medicare.
The....
AHIMA Comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Medicare Program; Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations and Medicare Program: Waiver Designs in Connection With the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Innovation Center
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: June 02, 2011
Accountable Care: Implications for Managing Health Information
Author: Viola, Allison F.; Washington, Lydia
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: July 09, 2011
This paper explores accountable care, its impact on how health information is managed, and implications for those who manage it.
Accountable Care Organizations and Their Impact on the HIM Profession
Author: Carmichael, Angela; Tully, Melinda
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
Healthcare reform has kicked off a wave of reimbursement and accountability initiatives that will require HIM professionals to collaborate with, and offer their expertise to, others in a wide spectrum of settings. HIM professionals can seize on these changes to elevate and advo....
Accountable Care and Data Analytics Emerging in Healthcare
Author: White, Susan E; Taylor, Lisa Brooks
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2012
Value-based purchasing of healthcare is transforming the US healthcare delivery system and payment methodologies. Spurred by commercial pay-for-performance initiatives and the roll out of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), accountable....
Building Blocks for Meeting the HIE Interoperability Challenge of ACOs
Author: Sarabu, Naveen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2014
As the healthcare industry business model shifts from a volume-based to a value-based model, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are a critical piece of healthcare’s new structure. The number of ACOs has almost tripled since 2011—increasing from 146 to 488 in two years.1 Financial and p....
Realigning HIM to the New Healthcare Environment: Case Studies in HIM Transformation Due to Accountable Care and Pay-For-Outcomes Initiatives
Author: Bower-Jernigan, Patricia L; Chenoweth, Ann; James, Jaime
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2014
The Affordable Care Act has been a catalyst for the transition to pay for outcomes. Through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center, dozens of new payment and service models have emerged that promise to deliver better care throughout the United States at a l....
Understanding HIM’s Impact on Quality at the National Level
Author: Munn, Catherine; Backman, Cecilia; Costello, Stephanie; Wise, Lee A; Westhafer, Kathy J
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
The future of healthcare continues to evolve with the introduction of alternative reimbursement models. The industry is moving from traditional fee-for-service models to those focused on quality of care and documented outcome improvements. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of....
Data Bank: Using Data Assets to Support Evolving Payment Models and Survive Healthcare Reform
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2015
Washington, DC, has one of the highest populations of individuals who either have AIDS or are HIV-positive in the US. In an effort to improve early diagnosis rates, treatment compliance, and prevention, researchers are using innovative data analytics methods to track participants in a pil....
Solving the Health IT Interoperability Quagmire
Author: Butler, Mary
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2016
As the sun begins to set on the Obama administration, Vice President Joe Biden has been leveraging the weight of his office to speak out on the health IT interoperability quagmire in which the nation currently finds itself. During a speech at the industry’s Health Datapalooza in May,....
Health Information Plays Big Role in Competitive Strategies of Population Health Analytics
Author: Perez, Ken
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2017
“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It’s about deliberately choosing to be different,” says Michael Porter, a Harvard Business School professor and expert on economics and business strategy.1
That advice certainly applies to the rising number of a....