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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
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
ACO Culture

What can we learn from the managed care backlash of the 1990s? Can we avoid an ACO backlash?

Advocates of “accountable care organizations” (ACOs) are careful to avoid the terminology of “managed care,” which is widely viewed as a failed model from the

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Dr. Ward September 10, 2011 1 Comment

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 Strategy

Explaining alternative types of ACO structures: How do Co-Management arrangements and Hospitalists fit in?

All across the country, physicians and hospitals are talking to each other about creating new organizational structures to enable them to work together more effectively.

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Dr. Ward April 29, 2011 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

NEJM report of ACO financial model fails to include risk of delayed start on transformation

On March 23, 2011, Trent Haywood, MD, JD, and Keith Kosel, PhD, MBA published the results in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) web

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Dr. Ward March 30, 2011 3 Comments
ACO Strategy

Satirical YouTube video on Accountable Care Organizations

I’m not sure about the background of this video submitted to YouTube by Centura Health. But, it is hilarious and sad at the same time.

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Dr. Ward January 28, 2011 No Comments
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