by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
The Commonwealth Fund recently released a survey that assessed hospitals’ readiness to participate in ACOs. The survey found that 12.8% of hospitals said they were either participating (3.2%) or preparing to participate in an ACO (9.6%).
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced beginning yesterday, August first, due to the Affordable Care Act, women are getting access to eight new prevention-related health care services without cost sharing.
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
If you were interested in the list, Advance Payment Model ACOs which was posted this week, you may be interested in checking out HealthQuest Publishers' recent update of their Accountable Care Directory. The new version of the 2012 Directory incorporates the 88 additional MSSP ACOs added in July 2012, plus additional commercial ACOs, as well as updates to prior listings.
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
This week, U.S. News released its annual list of the best hospitals. Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston was ranked number one on the U.S. News Honor Roll this year, displacing Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, which had been Number one on the Honor Roll for 21 years in a row. As well as the honor roll list, U.S. News has released ranking by 16 specialties.
 
You can view the healthsprocket list of hospitals on the honor roll here

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
If you are not already, you should consider subscribing to healthsprocket's weekly free e-newsletter, SprocketRocket. In it you will find the week's newest lists, lists picked by the editor, a featured list as well as a link to the latest blog.
 
You can subscribe to SprocketRocket here.

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
This week, athenahealth released its PayerView Rankings, an annual project which provides an objective, quantitative measure of providers' "ease of doing business" with individual payers. The payers were ranked in 6 categories; days in accounts receivable, first-pass resolve rate, provider collection burden, denial rate, ERA transparency, and eligibility accuracy, which made up the overall performance ranking. 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 

by Marshall Riddle, Senior Analyst, MCOL
 
As the Supreme Court ruling on the individual mandate approaches, many stakeholders in the industry are sitting on the edge of their seats until the decision is made public.  If you count yourself among the group impatiently waiting, healthsprocket has provided Five things you can do while waiting for the Supreme Court Affordable Care Act decision.