The decision to pursue surgery in patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias is challenging. Accountable care organizations may influence decisions to pursue surgery in this population.

Somnia Anesthesia has issued a news release in which the national anesthesia services company defined what it is terming an “Accountable Anesthesia Organization™” (AAO). Somnia describes an AAO as a ...

Having been blessed by the new health reform legislation, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are a hot topic in the health policy world, as evidenced by the just-concluded and well-attended ...

Physicians from two large group practices and Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group in Baton Rouge, La., recently discussed what stapes they would need to take to create an accountable care ...

Medicare accountable care organizations use preferred skilled nursing facility networks for postacute care management, although the size, structure, and resource allocation of networks vary widely.

Accountable care organizations take up only seven pages of the massive new health law yet have become one of the most talked about provisions. This latest model for delivering services offers doctors ...

Accountable-care organizations are slowly taking root in Orange County. The organizations bring doctors, hospitals and insurers together on efforts to cut costs through greater efficiencies while ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...

The focus of the national media and sites such as this one has been on the promise of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to transform the American healthcare delivery system in a way that the ...

Thousands of Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare will soon be able to get care through a unique local business that's intended to contain spiraling medical costs by giving patients more ...

The Biden administration has finalized a rule targeting fraudulent billing in Medicare’s largest value-based care program, after concerning reports of spiking spending on urinary catheters. The ...

The Fifth Circuit held that the Tax Court appropriately applied the substantial-nonexempt-purpose test in denying a health care organization’s assertion that it qualified as tax-exempt under Sec.