Daily news highlights the game’s high-stakes merger happened to affiliates and breakneck speed. New ways of providing care and paying the provider being tested. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts alternative quality contract is no longer as the majority of the Commonwealth’s alternative providers participate. As part of the affordable care ACT, Accoun Care Organizations (ACOs) will launch a nationwide to Medicare recipients in 2012. This Act also funded the Center for Medicare and Medicaid innovation (CMMI) with a mandate to explore alternative delivery and payment model.
In this shifting landscape, it is clear that Massachusetts will be the national leader. Under the leadership of CMMI s, Medicare has taken the first step is to select a group of ACOs national with small organizations, ACOs, Pioneer to show quickly is it possible when leaders of health given the right incentives to make the system better treatment. This is a group of ACOs physicians and other healthcare providers who believe that by working together with Medicare and coordinate closely with hospitals and other health care facilities that they would be able to deliver improved patient care and service.
This is the progress of the movement of the ACO on the federal level, adding efforts at country level, is very good news for the Commonwealth.