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Accountable Care Organizations Are Diving Head First Into Home-Based Care

Home Health Care

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have considerably increased their home-based care arsenals over recent years. They’ve also diversified the types of home-based care they offer, and are finally finding ways for it to make economic sense in capitated models. Source: Institute for Accountable Care.

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ACO Reporting- A Patient-Centered Approach

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An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions.

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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

NASHP

After discussion with IDPH, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) also established a prenatal and postpartum care HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) measure performance improvement project for Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to identify and close a health disparity gap.

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Sustainability and Value: State Palliative Care Reimbursement Strategies

NASHP

Blue Shield offers a range of palliative care services, including: Value-based purchasing: Over the past decade, state Medicaid agencies have designed and implemented a range of initiatives focused on value, using payment to incentivize provider behaviors that can reduce unnecessary care and improve outcomes.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

NASHP

In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves. Using payment to create incentives to improve performance. Value care organizations may participate under a risk or shared savings only option.

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Educating The New Supply Chain Workforce Via Social Media with Justin Poulin | E. 112

Vie Healthcare

But what has happened since the Accountable Care Act and value-based purchasing is we’ve now really expanded on the skillset that’s required, where you can take your career. (15:19): I’ve even seen a similar arc in terms of the value of sterile processing since the Accountable Care Act in 2010.

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