ACOs/IPAs
The ACO Power Grab: Will Physicians Be Targeted If They Don’t Play Along?
The ACO power grab and those who stand to profit from it Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Medicine and Politics in America by Adam Frederic Dorin, M.D., MBA SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2013 - Get ready, dear America, health reform’s newest brain child, the Accountable Care Organization (or ACO), is coming to a neighborhood near you. ACOs have been compared to the HMOs of years past (and present). Some have compared ACOs to ‘mini-HMOs’, encompassing regional power structures caring for thousands o...
Guarding America’s Soul — Abuse of Power and The Next Evolution of AMS …
America’s Medical Society is transitioning to a more full-service educational vehicle to assist patients (especially those who are underprivileged) in navigating the health care system. In these uncertain political times of health care ‘reform’, this journey can be confusing and even hazardous. To those who remember, and perhaps miss, the strongly worded AMS editorials in opposition to the ‘Obamacare’/Affordable Care Act legislation, do not despair–there will...
