Accountable Care

Ali Rizwan, product manager for Solve.care, discusses the huge potential of blockchain to ensure different parties work together and collaborate to deliver high-quality care for patients by providing the optimum platforms for care providers.

The February 19 deadline does not give ACOs enough time to consider the upside risk they'll have to take in the overhauled program, NAACOS says.

Froedtert Health saved $1.5 million in CMS's joint replacement model by involving patients in bite-sized activities on a daily basis.

HIP program compensates physicians for improving the patient experience, safety and outcomes for Humana's commercial members.

Agency also releases results of Next Generation, the ACO that takes on the most risk for Medicare payments.

Many physician practices lack the experience with data management and analysis needed to perform well in alternative payment methods, study says.

UnitedHealth Group's third quarter earnings from operations grew 12.3 percent over last year.

There is still a demand for voice and regular mail as communication methods, but that demand is shrinking.

CMS has made it clear that it wants health systems to share the risk of cost and outcomes.

ACO MSSP generated savings of $1.84 billion from 2013 to 2015, nearly double the $954 million estimated by CMS, according to NAACOS.