Look for more medical care providers to follow suit through Medicare as well as private insurance companies.
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They can, however, pay your medical care providers directly and have the expenses excluded from their taxable gifts.
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ACOs link medical care providers together to improve quality and control costs.
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The larger point to Baldwin's editorial is clear: it is not consumers, but medical care providers, insurance providers, and government bureaucrats that are largely driving medical decisions and payments.
Both are radical departures from fee-for-service medicine in that medical care providers are banding together through their practice, clinic or a business umbrella like an ACO to manage populations of patients.
ACOs link medical care providers together to improve quality.
Medical care providers, who will be paid as a team rather than each provider getting a separate payment, will have latitude to design and develop how they deliver the care to improve outcomes.
All health plans are under pressure to improve quality through better information technology to communicate with customers and medical care providers while more efficiently and rapidly processing medical claims for health plan enrollees.
The momentum is leading medical care providers to integrate end-of-life care and advanced directives into their ACOs, which gather doctors and other caregivers under one umbrella and are paid by Medicare and private insurers to treat groups of patients.
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The September issue of the noted health policy journal profiles medical care providers working with the Medicare program and health insurance companies like Wellpoint (WLP) and Aetna (AET) to provide doctors with payment incentives to get their patients more coordinated medical care.
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Here are four key segments of the health care industry poised to take advantage of new benefits under the Affordable Care Act as well as rules and regulations that will bundle payments to medical care providers, rewarding those who provide higher quality medical treatment and lower costs health services.
Walgreen has also formed and is joining with larger providers to create accountable care organizations, which organize a collection of medical-care providers to care for a group of patients.
At Concentra, executives are banking on the proliferation of accountable care organizations, which organize a collection of medical-care providers to care for a group of patients.
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Insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and Blue Cross plans having been aggressively moving to contract with medical-care providers through ACOs.
The same way we think the medical training of care providers is their shield.
Though bundled payment efforts have been tested in the past, Blum said none have been as broad or garnered as much participation from providers of medical care, particularly hospitals and post-acute care providers.
The stories are the latest evidence showing that the U.S. health care system is moving toward new approaches to make providers of medical care more accountable.
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It is true that public providers of medical care have not been responsive to Latin Americans' needs.
By knowing how patients make medical decisions, the health care providers can tailor information in a way that complements their decision making process.
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of healthcare providers and medical professionals who come together voluntarily to coordinate patient care.
Medicaid, by lowering the perceived price of medical care, increases the demand on care providers.
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It already has an elaborate array of "reimbursement fees" it allows doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to charge for medical services and procedures.
Baidu has announced plans to delineate more clearly between paid and unpaid links, and has removed links to unlicensed providers of drugs and medical care from its index.
When it comes to health care, we've invested in supporting health centers, and recruiting more primary care providers and nurses and other medical professionals to fill the shortage left by Katrina.
Medical schools are training our next generation of health care providers so that they can better care for our military families.
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The new tie-up, which will involve quality-improvement efforts and other areas, comes as top medical names are creating more affiliations with health-care providers around the country.
Although the proposal I released last week included a comprehensive set of initiatives to combat fraud, waste, and abuse, Senator Coburn had an interesting suggestion that we engage medical professionals to conduct random undercover investigations of health care providers that receive reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal programs.
The fees that Washington's Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees Medicare, has decreed providers may charge for many medical treatments are unrealistically low, thus guaranteeing that the quality of health care for the elderly will suffer in the years to come.
Meanwhile, survey data from the Massachusetts Medical Society indicate that the state's primary-care providers are being squeezed.
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Humana Inc. is a health services company that facilitates the delivery of health care services through networks of providers to its medical members.
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