Modern healthcare
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Most of the first crop of ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program are owned and operated by physicians without formal participation of a hospital in the efforts to improve quality and curb costs. "There were some people who feared that the only entities that would participate would be hospital-dominated systems," says Jonathan Blum, director of the Center for Medicare Management at the CMS, left. "That has not happened".
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After last week's U. S. Supreme Court arguments on the landmark healthcare reform case, providers are left to wait and wonder what will happen. "If I were a betting person ... I would come away and think they would throw out the mandate," says William Petasnick, of Froedtert Health. "But I think there is some case law and precedent that might move them in a different way because of the consequences."