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AHA Fears Tightening of Antitrust Restrictions Regarding ACOs
On January 3, the AHA noted in a response to a public request for comment that it was disappointed (PDF) in a little-noticed announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that it planned to tighten some ACO fraud-and-abuse waivers by narrowing legal definitions after two years of experience with the program.
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Source: Modern Healthcare
The AHA urged CMS to declare that it would only make material changes to the rules after a public notice-and-comment period. “ACOs should not be at risk for changes to the rules through obscure or little noticed issuances,” the AHA letter said.
Although observers roundly praised federal officials for loosening the antitrust and abuse rules on accountable care organizations (ACOs), the American Hospital Association (AHA) is protesting what it says are efforts by regulators to move back toward stricter enforcement over time.
Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Thyme Care CEO and Cofounder Robin Shah
October 2nd 2023Robin Shah, CEO of Thyme Care, which he founded in 2020 with Bobby Green, MD, president and chief medical officer, joins hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, to discuss his evolution as an entrepreneur in oncology care innovation and his goal of positively changing how patients experience the cancer system.
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Covered Preventive Services at Risk: V-BID Summit Breaks Down the Braidwood v Becerra Case
March 20th 2024For more than a decade, certain high-value preventive care services have been covered at no cost to patients under the Affordable Care Act, but a current legal challenge has the coverage at risk.
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Reducing Low-Value Care Is Hard, but What About Just Not Paying for It?
March 14th 2024After years of efforts to reduce low-value care, panelists at the 2024 Value-Based Insurance Design Summit proposed a new strategy: drawing a line in the sand that payers will not be on the hook for these services.
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