Transforming Medicare's Payment Systems: Progress Shaped By The ACA: A narrative review of Affordable Care Act payment reforms.

ME Chernew, PH Conway, AB Frakt - Health Affairs, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
The Affordable Care Act promoted payment reforms directly and through the creation of the
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, which it endowed with the authority to …

Association between electronic health record time and quality of care metrics in primary care

LS Rotenstein, AJ Holmgren, MJ Healey… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Physicians across the US spend substantial time working in the electronic health
record (EHR), with primary care physicians (PCPs) spending the most time. The association …

Advancing value-based models for heart failure: a call to action from the value in healthcare initiative's value-based models learning collaborative

K Joynt Maddox, WK Bleser, HL Crook… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospitalizations and readmissions in the United
States. Particularly among the elderly, its prevalence and costs continue to rise, making it a …

Streamlining and reimagining prior authorization under value-based contracts: a call to action from the value in healthcare initiative's prior authorization learning …

MA Psotka, EA Singletary, WK Bleser… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Utilization management strategies, including prior authorization, are commonly used to
facilitate safe and guideline-adherent provision of new, individualized, and potentially costly …

Why do accountable care organizations leave the Medicare shared savings program?

WK Bleser, RS Saunders, DB Muhlestein… - Health …, 2019 - healthaffairs.org
The ability of accountable care organizations (ACOs) to continue reducing costs and
improving quality depends on understanding what affects their survival. We examined such …

The Impact of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations on Health Care Utilization, Quality Measures, Health Outcomes and Costs from 2012 to 2023: A Scoping …

J Holm, JA Pagán, D Silver - Medical Care Research and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Most of the evidence regarding the success of ACOs is from the Medicare program. This
review evaluates the impacts of ACOs within the Medicaid population. We identified 32 …

[HTML][HTML] Association of clinician practice ownership with ability of primary care practices to improve quality without increasing burnout

LS Rotenstein, DJ Cohen, M Marino… - JAMA Health …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Work environments and practice structural features are associated with both
burnout and the ability of practices to enhance quality of care. Objective To characterize …

A decade of ACOs in Medicare: have they delivered on their promise?

SB Spivack, GF Murray… - Journal of health politics …, 2023 - read.dukeupress.edu
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were envisioned as a way to address both health
care cost growth and uneven quality in US health care. They emerged in the early 2000s …

Advancing value-based cardiovascular care: the American Heart Association value in healthcare initiative

MB McClellan, WK Bleser… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2020; 13: e006610. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.
120.006610 May 2020 200 cific time frames (eg, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' …

To what extent are ACO and PCMH models advancing the triple aim objective? Implications and considerations for primary care medical practices

J Cantiello - The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) have
emerged to advance the health care system by achieving the Triple Aim of improving …