Accountable Care

Expert Insights

• CMS announces FY 2013 Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing program incentive payments

  Nov. 2, 2012 | Blog Post | Health Care Advisory Board

  Since CMS’s announcement, we've heard many member questions about value-based purchasing. Here are six things you should keep in mind.

• Designing effective gainsharing models

  May 17, 2012 | Blog Post | Health Care Advisory Board

  Learn how gainsharing through bundled payment programs differs from traditional models—and how bundled payment programs can design effective incentive models to reward performance improvement.

• Medicare ACOs off and running

  April 12, 2012 | Blog Post | Health Care Advisory Board

  Read our five reactions to the launch of the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which will initially include 27 new Medicare ACOs serving beneficiaries across 18 states.

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Research

• Playbook for Accountable Care

  January 01, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Get a step-by-step examination of the process hospitals and health systems should take to finance the transition to a new payment model, assemble the accountable care delivery system, and reconfigure operations to transform care.

• Redesigning Cancer Care Delivery for the Era of Accountability

  April 07, 2012 | Study | Oncology Roundtable
  

  Discover tactics for meeting the growing demand for cancer services with limited resources by redesigning workflows, engaging patients and families as partners in their care, and enhancing symptom management.

• Economics of Accountable Care

  December 29, 2011 | Study | Financial Leadership Council

  Evaluate the impact of five key payment reforms: value-based purchasing, readmissions penalties, bundled payment, shared savings, and medical home reimbursement.

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Tools & Analytics

• Total Margin Scenario Planner

  April 16, 2012 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Generate institution-specific 5- and 10-year outlooks for payer mix, case mix, volume, occupancy, and operating margins; useful for exploring the sensitivity of margin projections to changes in underlying market forces.

• Customized Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Impact Assessment

  October 8, 2011 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Estimate the potential revenue impact of your institution's quality performance under CMS's hospital inpatient value-based purchasing program.

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  Accountable Care Readiness Diagnostic

  November 16, 2010 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Assess your organization’s ability to deliver on the core competencies of accountable care within the context of your market’s relative demand.

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Multimedia

• Building a Multi-Stakeholder PCMH Initiative

  Feb. 23, 2012 | Archived Webconference | Health Care Advisory Board

  Hear how leaders of the Adirondack Medical Home Pilot managed to organize 33 physician practices, seven private health plans, and five hospitals and health systems into a major regional medical home (PCMH) pilot.

• Reduce losses from Medicaid beneficiaries

  Oct. 5, 2011 | Video | Southwind

  Hear Dennis Weaver, MD, describe our latest engagement to help organizations reduce losses from Medicaid beneficiaries.

• 2012 Southwind Physician Alignment Award: Dignity Health

  Nov. 20, 2012 | Video | Southwind

  Learn how Dignity Health implemented a clinical integration model that fosters local physician leadership while leveraging the system’s scale. 

• Getting ahead of the risk-management challenge

  July 20, 2012 | Archived Webconference | Crimson Population Risk Management

  Explore Yale New Haven Health System’s ACO pilot using their employee population.

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