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Health Policy Insights from the Medical Home Summit: Wellness, ACOs

The Opening Ceremony of The Medical Home Summit The Population Health Blog is back home after attending the intellectually rewarding Populat...

The End of Power Health Care?

Corporate titans enjoying the good old days. While Moses Naim's The End of Power devotes only a few pages to medicine, it's still p...

Doubling Down on Accountable Care Organizations and Health Information Networks

Want to achieve effective health care, reduced costs, increased quality, population health, widespread prevention and seamless health inform...

Can Physician Loyalty to Their Profession Be Superseded by Loyalty to their Employer?

Whenever the Population Health Blog heard the "value-not-volume" health policy operatives drone on about " provider alignment...

Doubling Down on Accountable Care Organizations

What happens if CMS' grand experiment in ACOs fails? There are some good reasons to believe that it could happen: Preliminary results ...

Warning: Health Insurance is Hard

As a former commercial medical director, the Disease Management Care Blog has wrangled with a number of physician colleagues in the populati...

Five Things Docs Should Look for in an ACO, Including a Mirror

Pondering joining an ACO? The Disease Management Care Blog was quoted in Software Advice 's article on how primary care practices should...

Success Ingredients for Spread of Accountable Care Organizations

Mixing up some ACO No matter what you think about the long-term sustainability of accountable care organizations (ACOs), the Health Affair...

Of Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs, Start-Up Costs, Preliminary Financials and Data Support

The Disease Management Care Blog didn't know there was a " National Association of ACOs " either, but they've just release...

Twelve Health Care Predictions for 2014

While the Disease Management Care Blog eschewed forecasting for 2013, it has decided to reverse course and inaugurate the 2014 blogging seas...

Everything You Need to Know About Health Care Reform, Thanks to a 25 Minute Video, Courtesy of Managed Care Magazine

Thanks to Managed Care Magazine , the Disease Management Care Blog can post this interesting 25 minute interview with Princeton healthcare e...

Why The Tipping Point for Health System Consolidation May Be Closer Than We Realize: Lessons from Airline Mergers

Ready for take off From time to time, the Disease Management Care Blog and other pundits turn to the airline industry draw lessons on the e...

Pioneer ACO Program Results: Why Saving Money for CMS Doesn't Mean The Business Model is Viable

According to South Dakota researchers, the predator status of Tyrannosaurus rex can no longer be questioned. After finding one of its teeth...

Just Because You Build It They Won't Come: What ACOs, PCMHs and Population Health Advocates Need to Know About Poverty and Emergency Room Use

Thinking about an ER visit..... As part of a research requirement that it had to fulfill prior to medical school graduation, the young Disea...

What Can World War Z Tell Us About Accountable Care Organizations?

Unable to resist the allure of another zombie movie, the Disease Management Care Blog saw World War Z . While the gruesome scenes of chompi...

Sure, Accountable Care Organizations ACOs Can Save Money, But Can They MAKE Money?

ACOs at work. According to this Bloomberg news release , some of Medicare's Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are already achievi...

Medicare, Accountable Care Organizations & Medical Homes: Experimental, Potential or "Essential?"

Time to measure some new Medicare office drapes? One major and longstanding criticism of CMS' numerous innovation and demonstration proj...

A Thursday Three-fer: Diabetes Predictive Modeling, The Threat of Ambulatory Care Write Offs and It's the National Debt, Stupid!

At Risk? Diabetes Predictive Modeling: Evidence Based, Peer Reviewed and Open Domain: As Accountable Care Organizations, Patient Centered Me...

An Update On Population Health Management: It's Working!

CMS, MA Plans & Disease Management? It's a good day when Health Affairs has nice things to say about population health management ...

ACO Market Dominance: What's Happening At the Local Level?

ACOs and insurers discuss terms The Disease Management Care Blog likes to think of itself as having achieved "critical mass." Now ...

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