The primary goal of the Accountable Care Act is to control the growth in health costs in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The ACA seeks to do that by rewarding groups of health care providers (the ACO) who can achieve better patient outcomes and the associated costs savings. In order to make the mark, ACO...
The Medicare Shared Savings Program regulations arrived some time ago and much ado has been made over what Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will look like. One thing’s for sure, the regulations will encourage HIE adoption as organizations seek to form the Accountable Care Organizations and meet quality performance standards that ACOs need to achieve in...
