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Payment Reform

Are Accountable Care Organizations a Fad, or the Future? New National Council Resource Helps You Find Out

On October 20, 2011, the federal government announced final rules providing guidance on how Accountable Care Organizations should be structured. These final rules could create [...]

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CMS Announces New Coordinated Primary Care Initiative

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Wednesday the launch of a new initiative to support comprehensive primary care and improve the coordination [...]

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Back to School Healthcare Reform Webinar Series

It’s September 2011. If you want to ace those Healthcare Reform SATs for admission to new payment and delivery systems by 2014, you must start [...]

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Dr. Karen Davis on “Smarter Ways to Pay for Healthcare”

As the ongoing debate over reducing federal spending has shown us, health care spending will be a target of efforts to cut the federal deficit, [...]

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Community Care Organizations (ACOs for the Rest of Us)

With all the recent talk going on about Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), how do safety net organizations fit in? Dale Jarvis of Dale Jarvis and [...]

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The Impact of Health Care Delivery Reforms on Patients and Providers

The Affordable Care Act fosters the implementation of innovative healthcare delivery models, with the overall goal of improving patient care and achieving better value in [...]

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Accountable Care Organizations Explained

A new resource from Kaiser Health News provides answers to commonly asked questions about Accountable Care Organizations. Created as part of health reform, the ACO [...]

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January 2011 Implementation Update: 7 Major Changes Ahead

Health reform implementation continues with a host of changes that went into effect on January 1, 2011. Here are 7 of the major changes with [...]

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CMS Launches Center for Innovation

This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the creation of the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. The Center, established under [...]

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Dale Jarvis on Changes to Healthcare Services: Organization, Funding & Delivery

The National Council welcomes guest blogger Dale Jarvis. Dale will be taking questions this week, beginning on Monday October 4. The Patient Protection and Affordable [...]

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