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Anonymous said:
What is an ACO and what do they do? Are they different than an IPA?
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ACO Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (academic program)
ACO Action Cancer Ontario
ACO Association Canadienne des Optométristes (Canadian Association of Optometrists)
ACO Association Canadienne des Orthodontistes (Canadian Association of Orthodontists)
ACO Academy of Clinical Oncology (continuing medical education provider)
ACO Atomic Coordinating Office
ACO Atomic-Cell Orbital
ACO Average Communication Overhead
ACO Action Cut-Out (switch)
ACO Administrative Compliance Order
ACO Ant Colony Optimization
ACO Australian College of Optometry (est. 1939)
ACO American College of Orgonomy
ACO Automatic Cut Off
 






Anonymous said:
What is an ACO and what do they do? Are they different than an IPA?
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IPA Isopropyl Alcohol
IPA International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
IPA Idrocarburi Policiclici Aromatici (Italian: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
IPA International Psychogeriatric Association
IPA Independent Physician Association
IPA Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
IPA Independent Physicians Association
IPA Iso-Propyl Alcohol
IPA Isopropyl Acetate
IPA Isophthalic Acid
IPA Intermediate Power Amplifier
IPA International Platinum Association
IPA Institut Pasteur d'Algérie (French)
IPA Indiana Pharmacists Alliance
IPA Fraunhofer Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automation
IPA Independent-Particle Approximation
IPA Israel Psychological Association
IPA Instituto Português de Arquelogia (Portuguese Institute of Archeology)
IPA Ideal Point Analysis
IPA Infinite Periodic Array
IPA Inventor's Protection Act of 1999
IPA International Paruresis Association (Baltimore, MD)
IPA Image Processing Algorithm
 




































Anonymous said:
What a stupid comment......not even close.
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You folks are all stupid. ACO's are a basic old school HMO program, at the Hospital level. All controlled by the Government.

CMS will contract with local Hospital ACO, and then the Hospital will contract with LCA or QDX, or Mayo. Everyone else is out.

Physicians will contract with the ACO's, and they will be required to send lab work through lab.
 






Anonymous said:
You folks are all stupid. ACO's are a basic old school HMO program, at the Hospital level. All controlled by the Government.

CMS will contract with local Hospital ACO, and then the Hospital will contract with LCA or QDX, or Mayo. Everyone else is out.

Physicians will contract with the ACO's, and they will be required to send lab work through lab.
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I will come back to this silly thread at the end of 2015 and my book will slightly have been effected by this but NO WAY will there be a 75% shift.....NO WAY
 






Anonymous said:
You folks are all stupid. ACO's are a basic old school HMO program, at the Hospital level. All controlled by the Government.

CMS will contract with local Hospital ACO, and then the Hospital will contract with LCA or QDX, or Mayo. Everyone else is out.

Physicians will contract with the ACO's, and they will be required to send lab work through lab.
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Why exactly would the hospital use quest or labcorp? Each hospital will be part of a large hospital chain with a good size reference lab of its own. Heck, its the ultimate self referral.
 






Anonymous said:
Why exactly would the hospital use quest or labcorp? Each hospital will be part of a large hospital chain with a good size reference lab of its own. Heck, its the ultimate self referral.
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Because the hospitals can't run all the work quest or labcorp. Some of the work can be run in house but typically just the basic tests.
 






Anonymous said:
Because the hospitals can't run all the work quest or labcorp. Some of the work can be run in house but typically just the basic tests.
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Walked into a meeting, the head of the ACO says give me $100,000 upfront, $7,500 per month, and pay for my computers and you get all my Medicare.

Why is labcorp agreeing to these deals?
 












anonymous said:
Walked into a meeting, the head of the ACO says give me $100,000 upfront, $7,500 per month, and pay for my computers and you get all my Medicare.
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anonymous said:
Why is labcorp agreeing to these deals?
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Sounds like a straight mob deal.... Or in compliance speak, anti kickback statute = quid pro quo. No way this is compliant or legal for that matter. Even if it is, that sounds like a break even deal or a possible loss equaling keeping the lights on, volume stays the same but they lay off workers requiring the ones left, to do more with less. These national chain labs are at a crossroad with hospital controlled referrals and staying in business at the same capacity they have been accustomed to. Hospitals are going to buy most of the practices by the year 2025 and what you have left is hospitals creating a large lab in a particular area and then sharing the profits betweeen multiple hospitals, leaving that whole hospital labs can only run basic tests thing, as a historical past.
 






anonymous said:
Walked into a meeting, the head of the ACO says give me $100,000 upfront, $7,500 per month, and pay for my computers and you get all my Medicare.

Why is labcorp agreeing to these deals?
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Fascinating how corrupt American medicine has become and unlike gangsters, the typical participant isn't even aware of it. Cross out Medicare (which, of course, is paid for by a 3rd party known as Uncle Sam) and the rest of the dialogue would fit nicely into "Goodfellas."
 






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