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I've been mulling over a former Obama administration official's prediction that accountable care organizations will replace insurers since I covered his comments a few weeks ago. Former...
As insurers launch various types of value-based contracts, including accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes and bundled payments, could they be paying shared savings for the same patient to more than one provider?
Health insurers as we know them will likely cease to exist as accountable care organizations replace them, according to Ezekiel Emanuel, former White House healthcare adviser.
Susan DeVore, CEO of Premier healthcare alliance, outlines eight trends that will affect insurers and providers this year. Here's a sampling, rounded out with some examples from our own recent FierceHealthPayer news coverage.
Accountable care organizations have been launching all over the country, becoming a popular approach in the shift toward value-based care. But will health insurers and the federal government continue to embrace ACOs this year?
The health insurance industry is evolving as insurers move toward more incentive-based payments and sell plans on the health insurance exchanges. But the progress is slow-moving because insurers are...
Accountable care organizations operated by Anthem Blue Cross in California already have improved medical treatments for patients in only one year of operation, the insurer said.
FierceHealthPayer editors combed through our exclusive interviews to round up the most thought-provoking and memorable quotes from health plan leaders about patient-centered medical homes, accountable care organizations and more.
When payers and providers collaborate, they often achieve positive results. Patient care becomes coordinated, costs drop and quality enhances. That's what Cigna's Dick Salmon (pictured...
We already know Aetna has successfully implemented "a fundamentally different strategy in accountable care" by empowering providers. With that approach, providers say Aetna is more forward...
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