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Next Generation joins the Pioneer ACO and the Medicare Shared Savings ACO models as the three accountable care innovation models supported by CMS. The federal agaency has said these programs will help the sector move more quickly towards value-based reimbursement.
Ireland-based Shire and Illinois-based Baxalta announced Monday they will be joining forces, merging in a deal estimated to be worth about $32 billion.
Falls are the leading cause of injuries for adults 65 and older, and 2.5 million of them end up in hospital emergency departments for treatment every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The consequences can range from bruises to death. And older adults who fall once are twice as likely as their peers to fall again.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was surprisingly not among the list of 21 health systems joining the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday.
Brown & Toland participated in Pioneer from it's inception in 2012. But the relationship is no more.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday announced the 21 health systems that are participating in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model, some having defected from the controversial Pioneer ACO program.
The American Medical Association has invested $15 million to become founding partner of Health2047, a high-tech incubator that will explore innovative solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the nation's 1.1 million physicians and their patients.
Investors are gathering in San Francisco this week for the annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference, the sector's biggest financial event and one where many biotech deals are expected to be announced.
Newport Health and Northwell Health have combined forces in a new company, Health Connect Technologies, and DuPage Medical Group, an independent, multi-specialty physician group, has officially linked up with growth equity firm Summit Partners.
UPMC on Monday said it will partner with Health Catalyst to take on the rising cost of healthcare by commercializing the healthcare system's cost management technology.