The Southern region of the United States is the region with the most accountable care organizations in the 2014 class of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Earlier this week, CMS named 123 new ...

Last year saw a sharp acceleration in new models of value-based care launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

Remember the original proposed rule for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), issued in March 2011? It was met with an avalanche of more than 1,300 comments, most of them negative. Some critics, ...

Accountable care organizations do not positively influence treatment and outcomes for chronic mental health conditions for Medicare patients, according to a study in Health Affairs. For patients newly ...

This story was originally published on Healthcare Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Healthcare Dive newsletter. The CMS has announced a successor for an expiring ...

Millenson is president of Health Quality Advisors. Open enrollment season for Medicare, which began Oct. 15 and ends Dec. 7, triggers a deluge of information about various options. Since I’m a health ...

Medicare beneficiaries with dementia receive no measurable differences in end-of-life care whether they are in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) or traditional Medicare, according to a new study ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

Data from the first full year of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the largest of the Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), showed mixed results in 2012 and 2013, according to new ...