New Anthem network makes business case for HMO-ACO hybrid
Anthem Blue Cross Vivity, the newly announced joint venture among WellPoint subsidiary Anthem and seven prominent Southern California providers, will blend both the past and future as its planned HMO-like structure also looks to implement elements found in today’s accountable care organizations. Vivity will walk and talk like an HMO, a type of health plan that rose to prominence in the 1990s but fell out of favor due to limits on which doctors and hospitals patients can see….Read More
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