ACO Watch: A Mid Week Review

We provide a weekly round-up of Accountable Care Organization (ACO) activities, in the run-up to the January 2012 'go live' date. For example, in November alone we witnessed: (1) the AMA Interim Meeting of House of Delegates publishing 'New Principles for ACOs', see: McDermott, Will & Emery summary here: http://bit.ly/hHryR1, (2) the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMMS) issued a request for information on ACO's, see: http://bit.ly/elTaNs, and (3) we reached the NCQA's deadline for comment submission, see: http://bit.ly/ddJFOW Our special guest for the inaugural program is J. Peter Rich, Esq., of McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP. Rich is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery (MWE) LLP, and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. Rich co-chairs MWE’s 'Insurance/Payors Affinity Group'. For more than 30 years, Rich has practiced almost exclusively in the health law field, and routinely advises hospitals, medical groups, health plans and other health insurers, as well as other health industry clients, in negotiating and structuring managed care and other health industry transactions, including major Medicare Demonstration Projects, and on a wide variety of other transactions and health regulatory matters. Consider joining us on our inaugural broadcast!