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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Accountable care organizations"”.
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Physician Behavior In Accountable Care Organizations
… value-based) reimbursement over total costs of care in health insurance contracting affects how providers, specifically physician groups and health systems, determine marginal treatment choice and set the level of care provided to patients. Utilizing the widespread adoption of Accountable Care …
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Eliminating waste in US health care: evaluating accountable care organizations as a model for quality sustainable care
… the United States spent $2.7 trillion in health care expenditures, accounting for 17.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Health care spending increased by 3.9 percent in 2011 and is expected to surpass 20 percent of GDP by 2020. An investigation of national trends in health spending …
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Inside The Lines: Essays on the Performance of Whole Organizational Networks
… Challenges require the concerted efforts of organizations towards shared goals, which may not always coincide with local (organization level) incentives. As such, I use the context of healthcare reform in the United States to examine how analyzing the complex patterns of interorganizational …
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Improving Value Based Purchasing Through the Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader Role: The Chief Nursing Officer’s Case for Change
<p>The healthcare industry is focused on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the payment reform package from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the development of Accountable Care Organizations. The decisions, behaviors, and practices of medical and clinical staff directly …
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Integrated Behavioral Health at UTMB: A Cost/Benefit Study
… economic cost. However, the systems in place to care for behavioral health are often inefficient and fragmented between primary care providers and psychiatrists as well as other behavioral healthcare specialists. To address this, integrated care models are being investigated to correct these …
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Essays on Healthcare Coordination
… aimed at improving the coordination of healthcare delivery services. Two examples of such interventions are care coordination teams (CCTs), which are used in hospitals to coordinate patient flow across care units; and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which are used to coordinate care …
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Impact of technology on patient discharge decision making
… of patients discharged from primary healthcare facilities are readmitted within 30 days at a cost of roughly $42 billion dollars per year to insurance providers. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) create a network of healthcare providers aimed at improving the quality of patient care …
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Modeling Multi-level Incentives in Health Care: A Multiscale Decision Theory Approach
Financial incentives offered by payers to health care providers and patients have been identified as a key mechanism to lower costs while improving quality of care. How to effectively design incentive programs that can align the varying objectives of health care stakeholders, as well as predict …
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Impact of the Implementation of Accountable Care Organizational Structure on Pediatric Emergency Department Visits
… States was spending more per capita on healthcare than other similar countries but did not have better outcomes and spending was increasing at an unsustainable rate. That same year, the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) was passed in an effort to reform American healthcare to …