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CMS demonstration project offers potential new collaboration model: hospitals, physicians will work together to improve efficiency, quality.

HealthCare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may be giving hospital quality managers and other leaders a glimpse of the future with its new Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration, which it "expects to demonstrate how to better coordinate inpatient care and achieve savings in the delivery of that care that can ultimately be shared between hospitals, physicians, beneficiaries, and Medicare," according to CMS acting administrator Kerry Weems. CMS has just revealed the site selections for the initiative, which was slated to launch in March 2009.

The sites are: Baptist Health System, San Antonio; Oklahoma Heart Hospital LLC, Oklahoma City; Exempla Saint Joseph ...

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