ACOs

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News & Analysis as of May 19, 2013

Health Care Reform Implementation Update - March 14, 2013

by Mark Alderman | Cozen O'Connor on 3/14/2013

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conditionally approved state partnership marketplaces in Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire and West Virginia; Accountable Care Organizations wrote to the Centers for...more

More Providers Form Accountable Care Organizations; Growth in Medicare Spending Continues to Decrease

by King & Spalding on 1/18/2013

On January 10, 2013, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that 106 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have formed and begun participating in the Shared Savings Program as of January 1, 2013....more

Time's Up: Why You Can No Longer Afford to Ignore ACOs

by Matthew Chayt | Nossaman LLP on 12/11/2012

Of the healthcare recommendations announced by the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council last month, ACOs address all four. First of all, the ACO is clearly a new delivery model that uses the “full continuum of care givers.” ...more

Birmingham Medical News: 2012 Health Care Year In Preview

by Howard E. Bogard | Burr & Forman on 12/6/2012

The health care events of 2012 can be properly divided into "Before" and "After": Before the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act and President Obama's re-election and After. Before these two events, the viability...more

How Physician Practices and Physicians Can Take Advantage of the Supreme Court's ACA Ruling

by Saul Ewing LLP on 9/11/2012

The June 28th Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA") removed some of the uncertainty surrounding the immediate short-term prospects for health care reform. Now that the debate...more

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