Coordinated care: health care Rx, or HMOs all over again? New payment models will be a key issue
New Mexico Business Weekly September 14, 2012
When ABQ Health Partners announced its merger this week with a California-based physicians’ group, it said it was hoping to accelerate its push into coordinated care, a team approach to health care.
The Albuquerque group’s new partner, HealthCare Partners, with more than 8,300 doctors, has been using the coordinated care model for decades, and it seemed like a good way to help ABQ Health Partners...