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A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form accountable care organizations (ACOs) to coordinate beneficiaries' care and provide services more efficiently.
TeamHealth rejected a $7.8 billion bid by ambulatory surgery giant AmSurg on Tuesday, saying the unsolicited bid undervalues the company.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will abandon the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program, the system confirmed Tuesday, after losing more than $3 million over the past two years in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid model.
CMS has approved Dartmouth-Hitchcock's application for Next Generation and will receive its dollar target this fall. That will determine whether they sign the contract.
Aetna said it expects the transaction will be completed in the second half of 2016 pending conditions, federal review and regulatory approval.
Millennium Health of San Diego has agreed to pay $256 million to the federal government to resolve claims that it billed Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs for medically unnecessary urine drug and genetic testing, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Major for-profit ambulatory surgery operator AmSurg on Tuesday said it has offered $7.8 billion to TeamHealth Holdings to merge the companies.
The governor and state lawmakers are using a mixture of healthcare models to put the major players -- doctors, hospitals and insurers -- all on the hook to keep rising costs in check.
Aetna said it expects the transaction will be completed in the second half of 2016 pending conditions, federal review and regulatory approval.
Venture capital funding for digital health rebounded in the third quarter of 2015, up 32 percent quarter over quarter with $1.6 billion doled out across 148 deals, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group.