Posts in September, 2017

The Alliance has had two solid quarters of activity under the Collaborative Commercial Care Coordination (CCCC) program, which involves patients who have insurance coverage through Cigna, Aetna and Innovation Health. The Alliance is proud ...

We will begin communicating our strategy and expectations for aggregating and reporting 2017 quality data at the end of this month. As a reminder, the Alliance will cover the quality portion of MIPS through our regular annual GPRO (PQRS) ...

Message from Thomas A. Janus, DO Information regarding the Alliance’s participation in NextGen ACO( NGACO) is still embargoed by CMS/CMMI. Because this newsletter is available to non Alliance members, I am not permitted to discuss our ...

Message from Patrick McManus, MD Chair, Membership & Operations Committee, Board of Managers Membership and Operations committee continues to meet on a routine basis throughout the year primarily to review membership concerns and ...

Alliance Notes on Quality, 2017 Many feel that Quality as it applies to healthcare is a difficult thing to define. I favor the following definition from the Institute of Medicine (especially as it applies to a clinically integrated network ...

Federal Government’s AHRQ Report Assesses Performance of Health Care Delivery System, Identifies Areas of Strengths and Weaknesses in Health Care RICHMOND, VA – A recent federal government analysis ranks Virginia in the top 10 ...