Care Relationship Derivation, sometimes called “attribution” involves analyzing claims or other available data to infer the existence of a relationship between a patient and a provider for a time period, used when complete data regarding formally declared care relationships is not available.
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) today released the final rule for accountable care organizations (ACO). The new rule includes a number of changes designed to make the Medicare Shared Savings Program more palatable for health care providers who had a largely negative response to the draft rule released last March. The changes include the
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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 published a recent series of three posts (post 1, post 2, and post 3) regarding the draft rules of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) in the Health Affairs Blog, an
