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Last week, the first-year results of accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program brought on reactions that were — you guessed it — mixed.

Five thoughts and observations on the current state of the accountable care organization model.

House and Senate leaders have introduced a bipartisan bill that would repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate and replace it with a payment system that incentivizes physicians to provide high-quality, low-cost care.

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The following are the 10 most-accessed patient safety tools on Becker's Hospital Review and Becker's ASC Review for the week of Feb. 3, starting with the most-read.

The ASC Quality Collaboration has released a report on six facility-level quality measures of ASCs, collected from July 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2013.

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