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Thomas Merrill Identifies Challenges Associated With Accountable Care Organizations
Not surprisingly, Thomas Merrill, lead researcher, Center for Accountable Care Intelligence, Leavitt Partners, LLC, said that cost is a major work flow challenge associated with Accountable Care Organizations.
Not surprisingly, Thomas Merrill, lead researcher, Center for Accountable Care Intelligence, Leavitt Partners, LLC, said that cost is a major work flow challenge associated with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Newly developed information systems are expensive to develop and maintain within an ACO. Mr Merrill said that regional health insurance exchanges have had a difficult time self-sustaining due to high costs. “If all organizations in a given area are at risk for the cost of care for a given population, there will be mutual back scratching,” said Mr Merrill. ACOs, however, can provide the opportunity to share data with these at-risk organizations. There is mutual benefit in sharing patient information.
Navigating Health Policy in an Election Year: Insights From Dr Dennis Scanlon
April 2nd 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with Dennis Scanlon, PhD, the editor in chief of The American Journal of Accountable Care®, about prior authorization, price transparency, the impact of health policy on the upcoming election, and more.
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The Biden administration recently launched the Global Health Security Strategy, a new effort to combat the spread of infectious diseases; lawmakers zeroed in on the risks of massive consolidation in health care during the first congressional hearing on the Change Healthcare hack; the FDA recently announced the recall of a pair of heart devices linked to numerous deaths and injuries.
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