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Fundraising - Accountable fundraising

1 A specific example of accountable fundraising is the organization Better The

World which allows members to select the charity which receives the money

they have raised; members can constantly keep track of the amount raised on the browser sidebar tool.

[http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2488023 Accountable Fundraising

On ABC News]


Ford Foundation - Democratic and accountable government

1 The foundation says: Effective public institutions are essential for societies to be safe, free and prosperous. The process of governing must be more

transparent, accountable and inclusive in order to achieve fairness and equity. The foundation has five

initiatives under this issue:



1 * Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government: goal is

to improve the transparency, accountability and inclusiveness of

government institutions and processes.



1 * Reforming Global Financial Governance: goal is to make global financial governance systems more

transparent, accountable and effective.



1 Almost 50 percent of the grants made under this issue relate to

promoting transparent, effective, and accountable government.


Accountable care organization

1 According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

(CMS), an ACO is an organization of health care providers that agrees to be accountable for the quality, cost,

and overall care of Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service program

who are assigned to it.


Accountable care organization - History

1 Like the HMO, the ACO is an entity that will be ‘held accountable’ for providing comprehensive health services

to a population.4.PNHP http://pnhpcalifornia.org/2010/10/the-history-and-definition-

of-the-%E2%80%9Caccountable-care-organization%E2%80%9D/ The ACO-model builds on the

[http://www.cms.gov/demoprojectsevalrpts/md/itemdetail.asp?itemid=CMS1198992 Medicare Physician Group Practice

Demonstration] and the [https://www.cms.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/MD/itemdetail.

asp?filterType=nonefilterByDID=-99sortByDID=3sortOrder=descendingitemID=CMS023618i

ntNumPerPage=10 Medicare Health Care Quality Demonstration], established by the 2003 Medicare

Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act


Accountable care organization - History

1 Medicare announced 32 ACOs in December 2011,[http://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/Pioneer-ACO-

Model/ Pioneer ACO Model] 27 in April 2012,[http://www.cms.gov/apps/media/press/factsheet.asp

?Counter=4334 FIRST ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS] nearly 90 in July

2012,[http://www.cms.gov/apps/media/press/factsheet.asp?Counter=4405 CMS NAMES 88 NEW] and over a hundred in January 2013.[http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-

Fee-for-Service-Payment/sharedsavingsprogram/News.html Program News and Announcements] The complete list of

ACOs[http://globe1234.homestead.com/aco.xls Accountable Care Organizations] has providers in most

states.


Accountable care organization - Organization

1 # Provider-led organizations with a strong base of primary care that are collectively accountable for quality

and total per capita costs across the full continuum of care for a

population of patients;


Accountable care organization - Cost savings

1 Medicare Shared Savings Program:Accountable Care Organizations;

Proposed Rules


Accountable care organization - In the Affordable Care Act

1 What Providers Need to Know: Accountable Care



1 Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations; Proposed

Rules



1 A National Strategy to Put Accountable Care Into Practice



1 Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations; Proposed

Rules



1 After the initial set of regulations released in March, 2011, CMS received feedback regarding streamlining the

governance and reporting burdens and improving the potential financial return for ACOs willing to make the necessary, and often substantial, investments to

improve care.Health Policy Brief: Accountable Care Organizations, Health

Affairs, July 27, 2010



1 http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/10/accountable-care10202011a.html



1 * The ACO shall be willing to become accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of the Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries assigned to it


Accountable care organization - ACO Payment Models

1 Medicare Program: Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations


Accountable care organization - ACO Quality Measures

1 To address the goal of improving healthcare quality, CMS has established five domains in

which to evaluate the quality of an ACO’s performance. The five domains are

patient/caregiver experience, care coordination, patient safety, preventative health, and at-risk population/frail elderly health. Department of

Health and Human Services: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (2011). Medicare

Program: Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations. Federal

Register. p.19570


Accountable care organization - Providers

1 Accountable Care Organizations: A new model for

sustainable innovation


Accountable care organization - Patients

1 An ACO’s patient population will primarily consist of Medicare beneficiaries. In larger

and more integrated ACOs, the patient population may also include those who are homeless and uninsured. Patients may play a role in the healthcare they receive from their ACOs by participating in their ACO’s

decision-making processes.Springgate, B.F., Brook, R.H. (2011). Accountable Care

Organizations and Community Empowerment. Health Affairs. p.1800-1801


Accountable care organization - ACO Pilots and Learning Networks

1 Health Policy Brief: Accountable Care

Organizations


Accountable care organization - Challenges

1 Department of justice/federal trade commission issue final statement of

antitrust policy enforcement regarding accountable care

organizations


Accountable

1 A is accountable to B when A is obliged to inform B about A’s (past or

future) actions and decisions, to justify them, and to suffer

punishment in the case of eventual misconduct


Accountable - Administrative

1 Nonetheless, there are independent “watchdog” units to scrutinize and

hold departments accountable; legitimacy of these commissions is built upon their independence, as it

avoids any conflicts of interests


Accountable - Individuals within organizations

1 Another solution, recently proposed by Thompson, is to hold individuals accountable for the design of the organization, both retrospectively

and prospectively.Thompson, Dennis F


Accountable - Constituency relations

1 Within this perspective, a particular agency of the government is

accountable if voices are heard from agencies, groups or institutions

outside the public sector representing citizens’ interests from

a particular constituency or field


Accountable - Contemporary studies

1 The One World Trust Global Accountability Report, published in a

first full cycle 2006 to 2008,http://www.oneworldtrust.org/in

dex.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=

73Itemid=60 is one attempt to measure the capability of global

organizations to be accountable to their stakeholders.


Accountable - Media and accountability

1 To train people to conduct these kinds of investigations, Charles Lewis

(journalist)|Charles Lewis has proposed the creation of a new multidisciplinary academic field called Accountability Studies. ... [S]tudents from widely different

academic backgrounds are excited about the prospect of learning

exactly how to investigate those in power and hold them accountable.


Accountable - Accountability standards

1 * AccountAbility's AA1000 series. principles-based standards to help organisations

become more accountable, responsible and sustainable. They address issues affecting

governance, business models and organizational strategy, as well as providing

operational guidance on sustainability assurance and stakeholder

engagementWebsite: http://www.accountability.org/standards/inde

x.html


Accountable - Accountability standards

1 * Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) 2010 standards. A

standard for humanitarian organizations to help them design, implement, assess, improve and

recognise accountable programmesWebpage:

http://www.hapinternational.org/projects/standard/hap-2010-standard.aspx


Pinstorm - Pay-for-Performance / Accountable Advertising

1 Pinstorm is one of the earliest proponents of accountable marketing

services or Pay for performance advertising. The company does not

charge a retainer fee, media or creative charges. Clients are only

charged on the basis of the results their communication campaigns

deliver.


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