Covering the Market for ACOs and
Patient-Centered Medical Homes

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The advent of Accountable Care Organizations and Patient-Centered Medical Homes has already begun to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered and financed in the U.S. – with important implications for providers, insurers and patients.

The monthly newsletter ACO Market News tells you everything you need to know about this emerging market...how it will impact the business prospects of key healthcare constituents...and how you can profit.

• Health plan executives: ACOs could very well sound the death knell for today's health insurers – allowing employers to contract directly with providers for medical services, care management, wellness programs and cost control. ACO Market News reveals how health insurers are fighting back.
• Health system executives: PCMHs and ACOs require significant physician practice transformation, information technology investments, changes in work-flow and skill-task alignment. ACO Market News reveals how health systems are bridging the gap to create the delivery system of the future.
• Pharmaceutical executives: ACOs and PCMHs could dramatically change prescribing patterns – elevating the role of primacy care providers in disease management and increasing provider reliance on evidence-based medicine. ACO Market News reveals who will hold the strings going forward.

• Learn why Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina pays providers an enhanced office visit fee-for-service rate for care management, instead of a PMPM.
• Find our how Virginia Mason Medical Center is pushing forward with its ACO and PCMH initiatives, while recognizing that controlling costs may sometimes fly in the face of generating the necessary revenues to meet financial goals.
• Get exclusive, in-depth coverage of PCMH pilots sponsored by insurers.
• Find out how health plans and providers are already clashing over which performance measures and quality initiatives should be emphasized in PCMHs.