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Dr. Ward’s Slides from AMGA ACO Learning Collaborative, Chicago, July 14, 2011

Presentation entitled “Developing the Economic Model for Success” from day 2 of the American Medical Group Association’s Accountable Care Organization Learning Collaborative, at the Swissotel

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Dr. Ward July 14, 2011 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Klar 2: The great attribution debates: Include specialists or not? Plurality or majority? Retrospective or prospective? Derived or declared?

Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation.  He

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Dr. Ward July 2, 2011 2 Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Klar 1: Key points of agreement about changes needed for Medicare Shared Savings Program

Ron Klar, MD, MPH is a health care consultant with a long history of involvement in federal health care policy and health plan innovation.  He

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Dr. Ward June 25, 2011 3 Comments
ACO Culture

How to get a clearer picture of economic performance: Standard Cost and Payer Neutral Revenue

This morning, I read a set of slides published by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET) called “Striving

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Dr. Ward June 18, 2011 No Comments
ACO Culture

What makes teams effective? (2) Achieving the Piranha Club state

Back in the mid-1990s, when I was working in the Center for Clinical Effectiveness at the Henry Ford Health System, I had the privilege and

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Dr. Ward June 11, 2011 1 Comment
ACO Culture

What makes teams effective? (1) Not being too role-focused

I am a big fan of people in the fields of “usability” and “human factors.” These are engineering disciplines which have been applied to software

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Dr. Ward June 4, 2011 No Comments
ACO Culture

Why do other countries have different attitudes about Health Economics?

Wednesday morning, I attended a thought-provoking panel discussion entitled “Is Health Economics an Un-American Activity?” — a reference to the McCarthy-era Congressional committees that judged

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Dr. Ward May 28, 2011 3 Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Part 2 of Critique of AHA analysis showing higher ACO-related costs: Is being “local” worth 40% more?

The American Hospital Association (AHA) engaged McManis Consulting to develop a model of ACO-related start-up and ongoing costs for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The recently released

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Dr. Ward May 22, 2011 1 Comment
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Part 1 of Critique of AHA analysis showing higher ACO-related costs: Still underestimating care management cost

The American Hospital Association (AHA) engaged McManis Consulting to estimate the start-up and ongoing costs for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The recently released analysis was

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Dr. Ward May 18, 2011 1 Comment
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

New “Pioneer ACO” Program to offer fast track toward capitation (but they don’t use the “C” word)

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has announced a new “Pioneer ACO” program, available to provider organizations that are already experienced in population management

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Dr. Ward May 17, 2011 No Comments
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