Accountable Care

"The very advantage of telehealth, its ability to make care convenient, is also potentially its Achilles’ heel."

The best method to attract and keep consumers is to build access to points of care throughout the organization, from a hospital's retail clinic to physician offices, primary care and medical specialists, experts at HFMA 2015 ANI say.

Speakers at the Healthcare Management Association 2015 Annual Institute warn providers to embrace models like capitation, accountable care and bundled payments.

Healthcare Finance will be on the ground at the conference and will file live reports from the sessions.

Lancaster General Health Community Care Collaborative will be accessible by the payer's Medicare Advantage members in the Pennsylvania region.

New rules released Thursday include a third track for providers to take on higher risk and to share in increased savings.

Healthcare payment structures are changing, but won't necessarily hurt healthcare system's finances.

Leaders like Banner Health, Montefiore explain what it took to succeed in the first ACO model, and look towards new programs that give them shared risk incentives for care quality.

The most difficult challenges to value-based reimbursement reside within the cultural and operational sides of the business, and not technology, experts say.

New Hampshire ACO's goal is to have capitation make up 70 percent of reimbursements, dropping fee-for-service from its current 50 percent to 30 percent.