FLAACOs invites you to a complimentary webinar regarding ACO best practices affecting healthcare quality and delivery on Wednesday, July 9th from 1-2 p.m. EST. 

FLAACOs share lessons learned from member experiences preparing for and reporting quality and addresses the challenge of integrating data from across a variety of sites of care. This is an excellent opportunity for ACOs to hear tips on how to input clinical information and how to plan ahead for quality reporting in 2015. The webinar will include an overview of FLAACOs, benefits of membership and information regarding our upcoming FALL Conference.  

It's taken for granted that Batman will always hate the Joker. Beatles fans may never quite trust fans of the Rolling Stones. Republicans and Democrats will never agree on much of anything. And hospitals will always hate health insurance companies. Except when they don't.

As incentives slowly change in healthcare, a sort of détente is emerging between some health systems and health insurers. And as collaborative arrangements evolve, payers and healthcare organizations are finding that they need each other in order to ensure their relevance in an industry that is remaking itself in an attempt to become more affordable and less dangerous to its end consumers.

In fact, hospitals, health systems, and health plans are finding that because they each have a vested interest in reducing waste and improving healthcare's value, they have a lot in common lately. In some cases, seeing the difference between the providers and the payers is getting more and more difficult as each comes closer to incorporating pieces of the healthcare continuum that were once the exclusive domains of the other.

Check out this week's news from NAACOs. They call attention to the anticipated ACO proposed rule, a SAMHSA public listening session, an analysis of CMS' response to ACO data reporting.