RGV ACO Health Providers wins National ACO of the Year; ranked No. 1 in quality while earning $12.6 million in shared savings. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Darwin Health today announced the winners of its 2016 ACO of the Year Awards. Darwin’s proprietary model, which ranks accountable care organizations (ACOs) on quality and …
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By Athena Mandros In August, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the latest round of performance results for the Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) programs (see Medicare Accountable Care Organizations 2015 Performance Year Quality and Financial Results). CMS estimates that, in total, the Medicare ACO programs produced $466 million dollars in savings …
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It was lunchtime before my afternoon surgery clinic, which meant that I was at my desk, eating a ham-and-cheese sandwich and clicking through medical articles. Among those which caught my eye: a British case report on the first 3-D-printed hip implanted in a human being, a Canadian analysis of the rising volume of emergency-room visits …
The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Accountable Care Organization (ACO) uses a wide array of strategies to help their patients with diabetes – approximately 45 percent of their patient population – better manage their condition. The diabetes initiatives aim to support patients to understand their disease, undergo lifestyle changes, and systematically employ diabetes management approaches. All …
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FARZAD MOSTASHARI, MD Last week, Dr. Bob Kocher and I took to the pages of the New York Times to detail a health care success story in Southern Texas. In a region once featured for its extreme health care costs and poor health outcomes, a group of physicians motivated by new incentives in the Affordable Care Act has started to …