The AP (9/11, Kennedy) reports that there are about 420 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) “in the Medicare program serving 7.8 million patients, with more expected to enter the market in January.” According to a recent reportfrom the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 20 Pioneer ACOs and 333 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs generated more than $411 million in savings last year. Nearly 100 ACOs “also saved enough money to get a piece of more than $422 million, according to” the report. Meanwhile, experts “say most patients still don’t understand” how ACOs work.
On the front of its Business & Tech section, the Wall Street Journal (8/26, B1, Esterl, Subscription Publication) reports that sales of bottled water are anticipated to outsell soda by 2017, according to research by the Beverage Marketing Corp.
TIME (8/27, Oaklander) reports that according to a study published in the journal Obesity, drinking water before meals may help obese adults lose weight. In an 84-person study conducted at the University of Birmingham in the UK, obese adults who drank 16 oz of water half an hour before their meals “lost about three more pounds than the group that didn’t up their water intake” over the course of 12 weeks.
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