Catalog Number : gfp1756
Title : ACO Overview
Speaker : Barbara Gray

Webplay Recording Date : 2-24-2011
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

An ACO requires a shift from volume-based to value-based payment to allow hospitals, primary care physicians and specialists to collaborate in networks that improve the health of people they treat.

Webinar Objectives:

• Identify five different emerging ACO models
• Describe effective strategies to form community partnerships
• Understand actions necessary to meet the CMS timetable to qualify for ACO incentive bonuses in January 2012
• Describe the different ACO models, including integrated delivery networks, multispecialty group practices, physician-hospital organizations, independent practice associations, and virtual physician organizations
• List quality and cost measures from Premier’s Accountable Care Collaboratives

Webinar Outline/Agenda:

• Define ACO
• Describe ACO models
• Review reform legislation and timeframes
• Describe how ACOs require working across the healthcare continuum
• List preliminary ACO measures from Premier’s Accountable Care Collaborative

Target Audience:

• CEOs
• COOs
• CIOs
• CMOs
• Managed Care Executives
• Reimbursement Directors
• Government Affairs
• Community Relations
• Marketing

Attendance Certificate:

Upon attending this course you will receive a 1.5 Contact Hour Attendance Certificate or a 1.8 Nursing CEU. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.