The final rule on the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Making good on ACOs' promise--the final rule for the Medicare shared savings program.

What family physicians need to know about ACOs.

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are one of the most anticipated and, perhaps, most confusing developments in health care today. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act called for the creation of ACOs as a way to encourage physicians, hospitals and other health care providers to work across settings to coordinate and improve care for a defined population of patients and take part in...

Medicare program; e-prescribing and the prescription drug program. Final rule.

This final rule adopts standards for an electronic prescription drug program under Title I of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). These standards will be the foundation standards or the first set of final uniform standards for an electronic prescription drug program under the MMA, and represent the first step in our incremental approach to adopting ...

Sustained viral suppression in HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy.

The article, however, made a subtle but important mistake in characterizing the guidelines from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission published as a companion to the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The authors twice identify a “balance” between market power and integration efficiencies as the goal of the antitrust guidelines. The concept of balance misstates the vital role...

Limit to benefits of large reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels: use of fractional polynomials to assess the effect of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level reduction in metaregression of large statin randomized trials.

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