Accountable Care Organizations

Healthcare Infected With Tapeworms: ACA, ACO, EHB and IPAB

Deane Waldman | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Accountable Care Organizations, Healthcare Costs, Obama Affordable Care, Obama Health Care, Health Benefits, Politics News
Deane Waldman

Washington's recent effort at reform of healthcare has produced the mother tapeworm, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA protects the bureaucracy, not the patients.

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Deciphering the Alphabet Soup of Health Reform

James R. Knickman | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Health Information Technology, Accountable Care Organizations, Health Care Costs, Health Reform, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Disease Management, New York News
James R. Knickman

The whole alphabet soup of health care payment and delivery models is dizzying, but what do those models look like, and how will they affect the way patients experience care?

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2012: Go Big (Data) or Go Home

Janet Dillione | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Big Data, Accountable Care Organizations, Electronic Medical Records, Healthcare-It-Trends, Technology News
Janet Dillione

The adoption of healthcare IT as a means to improve clinical workflow processes and ultimately to improve the delivery of patient care has accelerated...

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Berwick's Exit from Medicare a Loss of a Brother-in-the-Trenches for Integrative Medicine

John Weeks | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Integrative Medicine, Patient Centered Medical Homes, Berwick, Acos, Accountable Care Organizations, Obamacare, Pcmhs, Politics News
John Weeks

The forced exit of Don Berwick, MD as administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services was a double whammy for the emerging field of integrative medicine.

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Wal-Mart Has an "Oops" Moment

Al Norman | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Physician Heal Thyself, Medicaid, Accountable Care Organizations, Wal-Mart, Humana, Art Museum, Business News
Al Norman

Before Wal-Mart offers the world an opportunity for a healthier life, the company needs to heed the Biblical dictum "physician heal thyself." Before selling American families a health plan, the Wal-Mart family should focus on improving the health coverage of its own workforce.

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A Doctor's Advice: Take Three Questions and Call Me in the Morning

Maggie Kozel, M.D. | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medical Homes, Accountable Care Organizations, Primary Care Crisis, Health Care, Politics News
Maggie Kozel, M.D.

Even health care professionals and policy wonks find it hard to stay ahead of all the ideas and arguments floating around healthcare these days; all the more reason to focus on the fundamentals.

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The Impossible Dream: Health Insurers Will Improve the Health Care System

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Capitation Payments, Accountable Care Organizations, Health Care System, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Stephen M. Davidson

Society's interest is clear and so is the path to get there. How bad do the problems need to get before we finally face the reality that investor-owned insurers do not want to be part of the solution?

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Fixing the Medicaid Mess

James R. Knickman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dual Eligibles, Medicare, Medicaid, Accountable Care Organizations, Health Care Costs, New York State, New York News
James R. Knickman

I see four main options for fixing Medicaid, none of them easy, and only one of them good.

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Some Doctors Question Medicare Program in Health Law

Todd Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Israel, American Medical Association, Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Accountable Care Organizations, Mayo Clinic, New York News
Todd Baker

The health care overhaul is being hit with a new set of arguments, this time by doctors who suggest that a lnew Medicare program creates a potential threat to their autonomy and to patient care.

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