Come on, Babe
Why don't we paint the town?
And All That Jazz
Lyrics, Chicago, The Musical, 1996
April 13, 2012- As the health care world awaits the Supreme Court decision on the health law in June and the election results in November, the Obama administration is pushing ahead to implement the various provisions in the law as fast as it can.
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It has just announced 27 new organizations, many physician led, that may become Accountable Care
Organizations (“ACOs Multiply as Medicare Announces 27 New Ones, April 10,
Kaiser Health News).
Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs
Name
|
Location
|
Est. Beneficiaries
|
Accountable Care Coalition of Caldwell County,
LLC
|
Lenoir, NC
|
5,000
|
Accountable Care Coalition of Coastal Georgia
|
Ormond, FL (Serving beneficiaries in GA and
SC)
|
8,000
|
Accountable Care Coalition of Eastern North
Carolina, LLC
|
New Bern, NC
|
10,000
|
Accountable Care Coalition of Greater Athens
Georgia
|
Athens, GA
|
8,500
|
Accountable Care Coalition of Mount Kisco, LLC
|
Mount Kisco, NY
|
N/A
|
Accountable Care Coalition of the Mississippi
Gulf Coast, LLC
|
Clearwater, FL (Serving beneficiaries in the
Mississippi Gulf Coast area)
|
7,000
|
Accountable Care Coalition of the North
Country, LLC
|
Canton, NY
|
5,300
|
Accountable Care Coalition of Southeast
Wisconsin, LLC
|
Milwaukee, WI
|
10,000
|
Accountable Care Coalition of Texas, Inc.
|
Houston, TX
|
70,000
|
AHS ACO, LLC
|
Morristown, NJ (Serving beneficiaries in NJ
and PA)
|
50,000
|
AppleCare Medical ACO, LLC
|
Buena Park, CA
|
8,000
|
Arizona Connected Care, LLC
|
Tucson, AZ
|
7,500
|
Chinese Community Accountable Care
Organization
|
New York, NY
|
12,000
|
CIPA Western New York IPA, doing business as
Catholic Medical Partners
|
Buffalo, NY
|
31,000
|
Coastal Carolina Quality Care, Inc.
|
New Bern, NC
|
11,000
|
Crystal Run Healthcare
ACO, LLC
|
Middletown, NY
(Serving beneficiaries in NY and PA)
|
10,000
|
Florida Physicians
Trust, LLC
|
Winter Park, FL
|
16,500
|
Hackensack
Physician-Hospital Alliance ACO, LLC
|
Hackensack, NJ
(Serving beneficiaries in NJ and NY)
|
11,000
|
Jackson Purchase
Medical Associates, PSC
|
Paducah, KY
|
6,000
|
Jordan Community ACO
|
Plymouth, MA
|
6,000
|
North Country ACO
|
Littleton, NH (Serving
beneficiaries in NH and VT)
|
6,000
|
Optimus Healthcare
Partners, LLC
|
Summit, NJ
|
29,000
|
Physicians of Cape Cod
ACO Description of Organization
|
Hyannis, MA
|
5,000
|
Premier ACO Physician
Network
|
Lakewood, CA
|
12,500
|
Primary Partners, LLC
|
Clermont, FL
|
7,500
|
RGV ACO Health
Providers, LLC
|
Donna, TX
|
6,000
|
West Florida ACO, LLC
|
Trinity, FL
|
10,000
|
Source: Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services.
|
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And the Obama administration has
diverted $500 million to the IRS to implement the health law. This money is to be provided outside the
normal appropriations process. The IRS
is responsible for enforcing key provisions
of the law, including the individual
mandate; collecting new fees and taxes on drug companies, device makers, and health plans; and making sure state health exchanges
provide the subsidies for low income people who cannot afford to pay for insurance;
and in general, implementing the Medicaid mandate, which could also go down with
the Surpreme Court decision.
Never mind the opposition. The Chicago way is to push aside, ignore,
or discredit anything or anyone who gets in the way related in any way to the
health care law.
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