WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said accountable care is reaching a record number of ...

As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hits reset on an important value-based care initiative popular with health care providers, ...

Accountable care organizations — which are designed to help improve healthcare quality and constrain costs — could be exacerbating disparities in healthcare, according to a study published in the ...

The number of Medicare beneficiaries treated in accountable care organizations continues to rise, according to new data from ...

Join Health Affairs on January 27 for a virtual event examining the future of accountable care organizations and current CMS ...

Is Medicare's accountable care program so challenging and unsustainable that participating health systems need an exit strategy? According to the latest federal data, last year about 64 of the 243 ...

Medicare beneficiaries whose physicians participate in accountable care organizations (ACOs), particularly those taking on financial risk for cost and quality, receive substantially more primary and ...

A new report released by Leavitt Partners, a healthcare intelligence firm, has identified six types of ACOs based on their organizational structure, ownership and patient care focus. Leavitt Partners ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Experts from the Premier healthcare alliance will speak around the country in April discussing health reform, healthcare information technology (HIT), accountable ...

A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine–Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University School of Public Health finds that how ...

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a point-counterpoint set of opinion pieces yesterday on whether ACOs, as an experiment, should be declared a failure. Massachusetts General ...