Category Archives: Accountable Care Organizations

Weekly Radio Segment – Provider Price Reform

Posted by Eric Schultz on November 11, 2011 no comments

Eric’s Weekly Radio Segment – Click here to listen Last week, the special Commission on Provider Price Reform put a spotlight on the problem of high prices charged by hospitals and physician groups that wield excessive market power.  They recommended a series of strategies to fix this major cost driver. …

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Categories: Accountable Care Organizations, Care Coordination, Cost Reduction, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform

Does ACO stand for Another Costly Option?

Posted by Eric Schultz on September 9, 2010 4 comments

The Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable of Evidence-Based Medicine, comprised of some of the best minds in health care policy, convened in 2006. In their efforts to identify methods to transform our nation’s health care system, even they struggled initially in defining value. Ultimately, the Roundtable defined value as getting the…

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Categories: Accountable Care Organizations, Health Care System, Working with Everyone