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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Oncology Care Model failure calls for rethinking our approach to real, sustainable improvement in specialty care

This month, disappointing evaluation results call for re-thinking of our approach to improving specialty care.  Nancy Keating and 12 of her colleagues from multiple medical

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Dr. Ward November 10, 2021 No Comments
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

What is missing from the CMS Innovation Center five year vision?

The Biden administration’s CMS Innovation Center 5-year vision conspicuously lacks mention of what I consider to be necessary course corrections to reverse a disappointing first decade.

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Dr. Ward August 18, 2021 1 Comment
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Berwick and Gilfillan offer six recommendations for reinventing CMMI. My response is yes, but they don’t address the #1 issue: failure to achieve critical mass.

In a recent health policy viewpoint article in JAMA, Drs. Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan noted that, although the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid

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Dr. Ward April 7, 2021 3 Comments
ACO Strategy

3 steps for executing an effective consumer-driven physician strategy

To meet post-pandemic expectations of consumers, healthcare providers need a strategy for consumer-focused care processes, supported by consumer-friendly provider networks and enabling technology.

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Dr. Ward December 1, 2020 No Comments
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

If repealing Obamacare is off the table, can we turn attention to improving it through cost-effective clinical protocols?

Paul Krugman recently wrote an article in the New York Times posing the question: if repealing Obamacare is off the table (for now), should people

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Dr. Ward August 7, 2017 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Hospital Value-based Purchasing program 1% incentive is like homeopathic medicine — too diluted to actually work

In the June 15, 2017 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Andrew Ryan and colleagues from the University of Michigan published an evaluation

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Dr. Ward June 24, 2017 No Comments
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

First take on new CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model

This morning, I read about the recently announced next generation version of the CMS Comprehensive Primary Care model, which will require multi-payer participation and will

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Dr. Ward April 23, 2016 No Comments
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Physician-led ACOs now outnumber Hospital-based ACOs: Why this makes sense, and where our terminology breaks down.

At a recent meeting of the American College of Physicians covered in MedPage Today, Neil Kirschner, PhD reported on the growth of ACOs. Dr. Kirschner is

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Dr. Ward April 25, 2013 No Comments

Beautiful video from Cleveland Clinic advocating empathy

We focus on optimizing care processes, analyzing data, implementing technology, and the other technical and scientific aspects of our work to improve health care.  But,

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Dr. Ward March 29, 2013 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

New HIT ROI lit review is a methodologic tour de force, but misses the point

Recently, Jesdeep Bassi and Francis Lau of the University of Victoria (British Columbia) published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) another in

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Dr. Ward February 23, 2013 No Comments
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