Millenson is president of Health Quality Advisors. Open enrollment season for Medicare, which began Oct. 15 and ends Dec. 7, triggers a deluge of information about various options. Since I’m a health ...

At a time when the healthcare industry continues to deal with the uncertainty of the ongoing pandemic, in the final weeks of 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2021 ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program may generate only limited savings for participating accountable care organizations, according to a study in Health Affairs. The authors simulated a Medicare type 2 ...

Medicare’s largest value-based care program saved the government more than $2.1 billion last year — an all-time record, according to the CMS. Accountable care organizations, groups of providers that ...

The following article is written by Brenda Morrow (brenda1075@att.net) of HealthCare Reimbursement InSIGHT. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a long-awaited proposed ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ilumed improved care for over 24,000 Medicare beneficiaries in Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and Kentucky while reducing costs, achieving a 100% quality score, and ...

On the first day of 2013, 106 new accountable care organizations officially started participating in the Medicare shared savings program, as federal health officials try to show that new health reform ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

From nursing homes to hospitals, quality metrics shape care delivery, reimbursement, and patient outcomes. New CMS updates, AI-powered EHR tools, and advanced analytics are transforming how providers ...

The final Accountable Care Organization regulations are out, the initial flurry of commentary is out (including my own ACO webinar with simultaneous #ACOchat tweetchat - available for replay; slides ...