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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 …

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By Martha Hostetter Summary: In this issue, we profile two different types of accountable care organizations (ACOs), one led by a health system and another led by independent primary care providers. This profile focuses on the latter, Rio Grande Valley Accountable Care Organization Health Providers, based in Donna, Tex., which was one of 114 ACOs to join …

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By Christine Kern, contributing writer Despite mixed results, Medicare ACO program expanding, now over 350 organizations When Heartland Regional Medical Center gambled and took the plunge in 2012, opting to join Medicare’s Shared Savings Program in its inaugural year, they had a great deal to lose. Yet in the first year of their ACO experiment, that risky bet …

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