A new study by Dartmouth Institute For Policy and Clinical Practice finds coordinated care for patients with complex needs a big winner for ACOs.

Currently there are now over 700 Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) in place across the country, covering 23 million Americans and making

The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement payment model CMS announced proposes to hold hospitals accountable for the quality of care they deliver to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries for hip and knee replacements from surgery through recovery. The hip and knee bundle program would

U.S. hospitals continued to see downward trends in hospital utilization.

The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) compilation shows:

• Hospital admissions have been falling since 2009. This trend carried into 2013 with a 2% decline to about 35.4 million compared with

Colorado

The longest-standing Medicaid program is in Colorado, where the statewide Accountable Care Collaborative launched in 2011. The Colorado program’s Regional Care Collaborative Organizations (RCCOs) are not at financial risk for improving quality and lowering costs (they only

The ACO Investment Model is an initiative developed by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) for organizations participating as ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program). The ACO Investment Model is a new model of pre-paid shared