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Accountable Care Organizations: Your Guide to Strategy, Design, and Implementation, by Marc Bard and Mike Nugent
Are you ready to be an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)? Significant new opportunities and challenges face health systems, hospitals, and physician practices as they decide whether to participate in the new Medicare Shared Savings Program and join together to [...]
Health Reform and 2010 Mid-Term Elections: An Observation
It’s always fascinating and often amusing to watch the partisan spin masters and media talking heads following an election. Some practice spin like it was high art, suitable for framing in the Louvre. But with a [...]
Accountable Care Organizations: Primer on ACOs and Medicare Shared Savings Program
The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model is a new Medicare option for physicians, hospitals, and other providers to share in cost-savings. ACOs represent a dramatic change in Medicare policy and an opportunity to transform care delivery [...]
Accountable Care Organizations: Kip Piper’s Interview with Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, Medicare providers, including physician groups and hospitals, will soon have the option to form Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to improve quality and efficiency. ACO providers [...]
American Health & Drug Benefits: June 2010 Issue
The latest issue of the journal American Health & Drug Benefits includes a valuable mix of studies and articles of interest to decision makers. Topics include health reform, bundled payment, drug pricing, benefit design, Medicaid, medication [...]
Medicaid Drug Rebate: Expansion of Federally Mandated Prescription Drug Rebates in Medicaid
Federally mandated rebates for prescription drugs in Medicaid were expanded significantly – by $38 billion – under the new health reform law, with extraordinary financial, administrative, and compliance implications for pharmaceutical manufacturers, Medicaid health plans, and [...]
The Patient Priority: Achieving Pharmaceutical Success
Please join American Health & Drug Benefits in Philadelphia on May 21, 2010 for The Patient Priority: Achieving Pharmaceutical Success in a Fractionated, Multi-Stakeholder Healthcare Environment. The program will help identify clinical, business, and policy governing [...]
American Health and Drug Benefits: March – April 2010 Issue
The latest issue of the journal American Health & Drug Benefits includes a valuable mix of studies and articles on economic, regulatory, and clinical issues of particular interest to payors, purchasers, and policymakers. Obesity: Effective Treatment [...]
Wellness-Based Healthcare: Prevention, Intervention, and Innovation for Chronic Diseases
Creating a wellness-based healthcare system is the focus on a new series of articles published by American Health and Drug Benefits, a peer reviewed journal. They cover a wide spectrum of topics on how to build [...]
American Health and Drug Benefits: January – February 2010 Issue
Here are articles from the latest issue of American Health & Drug Benefits. AHDB is a peer-reviewed journal for 30,000 decision makers in health plans, PBMs, Medicare, Medicaid, and the pharma and biotech industries: Orphan Drug [...]
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