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Hundreds of West Michigan docs now in an ACO
The POM accountable care organization organized by U-M represents 1,800 physicians.
Federal health authorities have announced a new accountable care organization approved by Medicare in January that represents 1,800 doctors across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula — including perhaps a thousand or more working in or near Grand Rapids, Muskegon and surrounding counties.
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Health care programs wait at the fiscal cliff
The looming fiscal cliff has implications for health care. The package of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes is set to kick in during January 2013 unless President Obama and Capitol Hill agree on a way to stop them. Here are some items of interest regarding health care.
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Priority Health expands Medicare services
The start of the annual Medicare open enrollment period has prompted Priority Health to announce it has added seven counties to its Medicare service area and 5,000 more care providers to the Priority Health Medicare Advantage network this year.
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Metro, Spectrum subject to Medicare readmission penalties
Hospitals are trying to reduce readmission rates to comply with Affordable Care Act.
Another aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act kicked in with the start of the new federal fiscal year on Oct. 1, when Medicare began penalizing hospitals that have certain types of Medicare patients who are discharged and then readmitted too soon, too often.
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