July 12, 2012—Nashville, Tenn. —Laura Beerman, Product Manager with HealthLeaders-InterStudy, is available to discuss the 89 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) recently announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Ms. Beerman can provide background on the history of ACOs as well as what these newly announced organizations mean to the healthcare landscape.
Ms. Beerman can address the following topics:
- What overlap is there between these new ACOs and the first ACOs launched in Aril 2012?
- Will physicians be participating in more than one ACO and what will that look like?
- Will these new ACOs be confined to one state as the previous group had been?
Members of the media may request to speak with Ms. Beerman by contacting Kristi Guillemette at 781.993.2618 or
kguillemette@hl-isy.com.