The ACO handbook
Subtitle: a guide to accountable care organizations
By: by Peter A. Pavarini, Charlene L. McGinty, Michael F. Schaff, [executive editors]
Contributors: American Health Lawyers Association
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Health Lawyers Association
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780769846507; 9780769846491
Subjects: Accountable care organizations; Law and legislation
Description: "One of the most talked about new developments in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The Act directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to experiment with ways to employ high-performance provider organizations to deliver comprehensive care to a specific group of patients over an event, an episode, or a lifetime while assuming responsibility for the clinical and financial outcomes of that care. This new healthcare delivery method and others will require a level of cooperation and joint decision making that has often been lacking in traditional healthcare organizations in the United States. As the governing regulations are now final, we are pleased to bring you help in determining whether and/or how to implement this new concept"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of accountable care organizations  -- Peter A. Pavarini; title: Hospital/physician integration models before PPACA  -- Michael F. Schaff, Glenn P. Prives; title: The financial aspects of accountable care organizations  -- Peter A. Pavarini; title: The applied medical home : a recipe for reform  -- Mark W. Browne, Charlene L. McGinty; title: Fraud & abuse waivers under the Medicare Shared Savings Program  -- Robert G. Homchick; title: Tax implications of accountable care organizations  -- Travis F. Jackson; title: Health information technology issues for ACOs  -- Elisabeth Belmont, Marilyn Lamar; title: ACOs and their antitrust implications  -- Toby G. Singer, David R. Pearl; title: Performance/quality  -- Mark W. Browne; title: Certification and licensure  -- Danielle L. Trostorff; title: Governance and management  -- John R. Washlick; title: ACOs and state insurance laws  -- Thomas E. Bartrum; title: How state law issues may affect accountable care organizations  -- Michael F. Schaff, Alyson M. Leone; title: ACO shared savings distribution/physician compensation  -- Rudolf M. Blumentritt; title: Physician compensation valuation in an ACO  -- Kimberly A. Mobley; title: ACOs and post acute providers  -- Jan E. Murray, Nathan L. Lutz; title: Specialty ACOs : pediatric ACOs for Medicaid patients  -- Timothy J. Cahill; title: Beneficiary assignment : fro whose care is the ACO responsible? -- Lauren N. Haley.