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Acting CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner and other healthcare leaders discuss how the industry is dealing with the practical issues of establishing ACOs at the Third National Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Summit in Washington, D.C., June 6-8.

It's going to take more healthcare reform for productivity gains to show up from HIT adoption, according to a new report.

Regina Doxtader - CFO, Botsford Health Care, Farmington Hills, Michigan

Between 2011 and 2021, national health spending is projected to grow at an average rate of 5.7 percent annually, according to projections set forth in a study done by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' National Health Expenditure Accounts Team and published in the July issue of Health Affairs.

With the Supreme Court expected to make a ruling within the next two weeks on key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, UnitedHealthcare, Humana and Aetna have agreed to continue offering certain provisions of the law, regardless of its legal fate.

According to a report released Friday by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, the ratings agency believes there could very likely be a net negative for for-profit hospitals with the full implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

With the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expected by the end of this month, more and more policymakers, healthcare experts and stakeholders are becoming vocal about their predictions of the outcome.

At the recent HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo, David Kendrick, MD, CEO of MyHealth Access Network, a Beacon Community, spoke on his experiences not just implementing a community HIE, but also streamlining costs and improving quality of care in the state of Oklahoma.

While payers across the country have launched a host of different forms of payment initiatives like ACOs and patient-centered medical homes, designed around some form of risk sharing, Washington-based Premera Blue Cross has found success via its unique payment model it calls Global Outcomes Contracting.

The California HealthCare Foundation and a group of innovators have released a technical prototype and road map for states and the federal government to create a health insurance exchange.