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ACOs’ Focus on Rooting Out Fraud Aligns With CMS Vision Under Oz

April 23rd 2025

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are increasingly playing the role of data sleuths as they identify and report trends of anomalous billing in hopes of salvaging their shared savings. This mission dovetails with that of CMS, which under the new administration plans to prioritize rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse.

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Sutter Health, SCAN Announce Partnership to Launch New MA Products, Joint Venture Health Plan

By Mary Caffrey

April 11th 2025

The Role of Advanced Technologies in Improving Diabetes Outcomes

By David G. Marrero, PhD
Christopher G. Parkin, MS

April 7th 2025

Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH

By Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH
Christina Mattina

April 1st 2025

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Enhancing Quality in Virtual Care Delivery

By Maggie L. Shaw

March 31st 2025

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IOM: Physicians Play Key Role in Stopping Health System Waste

September 24th 2012

Evaluating a Community-Based Program to Improve Healthcare Quality: Research Design for the Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative

Dennis P. Scanlon, PhD;Jeffrey A. Alexander, PhD;Jeff Beich, PhD;Jon B. Christianson, PhD;Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD;Megan C. McHugh, PhD;Jessica N. Mittler, PhD;Yunfeng Shi, PhD;Laura J. B

September 22nd 2012

Creating and Sustaining Change: Early Insights From Aligning Forces

Claire B. Gibbons, PhD, MPH;Anne F. Weiss, MPP

September 21st 2012

Getting the Structure Right for Communitywide Healthcare Improvement

Gordon Mosser, MD

September 21st 2012

That Was Then, This Is Now

Lisa A. Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP

September 21st 2012

When Aligning Forces started, federal policy was a desert. Now it's a greenhouse.

Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives Needed Now More Than Ever: Program Directors' Perspectives

Randall D. Cebul, MD;Susanne E. Dade, MPA;Lisa M. Letourneau, MD, MPH;Alan Glaseroff, MD, ABFM

September 21st 2012

Partnering With a Payer to Develop a Value-Based Medical Home Pilot: A West Coast Practice's Experience

Linda D. Bosserman, MD, FACP;Diana Verrilli;Wendy McNatt

September 20th 2012

Medical Drug Benefit Management in the Pathway Era

Kim Farina, PhD

September 20th 2012

A Major Glitch for Digitized Healthcare Records

September 18th 2012

The Keys to Obtaining Best Value in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Marj P. Zimmerman, MS, BSPharm, RPh;Stanton R. Mehr

September 18th 2012

Achieving Quality and Containing Cost Through Oncology Pharmacy Management

Kim Farina, PhD

September 17th 2012

With Medicaid, Long-Term Care of Elderly Looms as a Rising Cost

September 7th 2012

Study: Decision Aids Show Promise In Reducing Medical Procedures

September 6th 2012

Are Medicare's New Quality Incentives Large Enough To Change Hospital Behavior?

September 5th 2012

Docs, Nurses May Overestimate Quality of Their Care

September 5th 2012

Companies Expanding Their Services Through Ventures with ACOs

August 29th 2012

Hospitals Look To Become Insurers, As Well As Providers Of Care

August 27th 2012

A Technology Solution for the High-Tech Diagnostic Imaging Conundrum

Leif I. Solberg, MD;Cally Vinz, MBA, RN;Jim E. Trevis, BA

August 23rd 2012

This article reports a unique statewide initiative in Minnesota to improve orders for high-tech diagnostic imaging tests while reducing their overall frequency and costs.

Patient Medical Group Continuity and Healthcare Utilization

Louise H. Anderson, PhD;Thomas J. Flottemesch, PhD;Patricia Fontaine, MD, MS;Leif I. Solberg, MD;Stephen E. Asche, MA

August 23rd 2012

Patients who often change medical groups have the highest healthcare costs. The improved coordination of an accountable care organization may reduce those costs.

Sign Of Change: Doctors Offering Price Guarantee To Insurers

August 21st 2012

Racial Disparities in African Americans With Diabetes: Process and Outcome Mismatch

John B. Bulger, DO;Jay H. Shubrook, DO;Richard Snow, DO, MPH

August 20th 2012

Racial disparities are widespread in healthcare. Disparities can have a strong influence on diabetes care. This manuscript explores the source of such disparities.

Medicare to Hit 2,211 Hospitals for Readmissions

August 16th 2012

Coming Wave of Medicaid Patients Will Test Quality at Safety-Net Hospitals

August 6th 2012

Commonwealth Fund Names Dr. David Blumenthal as Next President

July 26th 2012

3 Steps to Quality Pay for Physicians

July 23rd 2012

COA Oncology Medical Home Committee Approves 16 Measures To Evaluate And Reward Quality, Cost Efficiency And Outcomes

July 18th 2012

Role of Pharmaceuticals in Value-Based Healthcare: A Framework for Success

Robert W. Dubois, MD, PhD;Marv Feldman, RPh, MS;John Martin, MPH;Julie Sanderson-Austin, RN;Kimberly Westrich, MA;for The Working Group on Optimizing Medication Therapy in Value-Based Healthca

July 12th 2012

A framework for the role of pharmaceuticals in value-based healthcare, practical examples from organizations that have made the transition, and implementation considerations.

Robert Margolis, MD, Addresses Incentives for Population-Based Healthcare

July 10th 2012

Robert Margolis, MD, Managing Partner and CEO, HealthCare Partners, says there needs to be a movement toward managing patients based on population.

ACO Rollout Continues With 89 New Networks

July 10th 2012

Quality of Life Better with Less Care at the End

July 10th 2012

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