Calif. Groups To Launch New Accountable Care Initiative

Modesto-based AllCare IPA, Blue Shield of California and Doctors Medical Center of Modesto announced that they have teamed up for a new accountable care initiative to provide integrated health care services to about 8,000 Blue Shield HMO members. The initiative will begin Jan. 1, 2012, and last at least three years.

• "Three-Year Accountable Care Initiative Starting in Calif." (Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 6/15).