CMS is adding value-based care (VBC) risk faster than many providers can build the data and tech capacity they need to succeed.
|Articles|December 16, 2011
Dr. Thomas Graf Explains Geisinger's Low Increased Costs With its Accountable Care Organization Pilot Project
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In this segment, Dr. Thomas Graf, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Population Health, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, explains how Geisinger Health System was able to achieve a significantly low increase in costs.
In addition, Dr. Graf discusses Geisinger's goal of providing consistent high-quality care through enhanced care coordination, such as the patient-centered medical home model, and its involvement in the next phase of this accountable care organization (ACO) pilot project that will run through 2012.
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