I have been longing for a real world, a true world, an honest world. I suspect our survival as a species depends upon us being able to remember what is real. And so we must also find language that ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...

An editorial in response to the editor in chief’s December 2021 letter discusses alignment of specialist physicians with value-based care initiatives. In his December 2021 letter, The American Journal ...

Thousands of Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare will soon be able to get care through a unique local business that's intended to contain spiraling medical costs by giving patients more ...

The South Carolina-based health system's ACO is working in collaboration with CVS Accountable Care. Prisma Health has established a collaboration between its accountable care organization, InVio ...

A majority of U.S. adults (56%) say that those who call out others on social media for posts that might be considered offensive are mainly holding people accountable for their actions. A smaller share ...

In 2021, the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund compared health care systems in 11 high-income countries. The U.S. ranked dead last in performance, despite being the most technologically advanced and ...

Over 100 years ago, researchers discovered Optimal Anxiety Theory when studying mice performance. It turns out that neither being relaxed, nor being under a lot of pressure, maximize productivity.

ACOs managing complex populations face challenges like patient attribution, irrelevant quality measures, and financial constraints, requiring tailored strategies for effective care delivery.