What are Accountable Care Organizations?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are the latest rage in the health policy world. The question is, what are ACOs. The Urban Institute’s Kelly Devers and Robert Berenson try to answer the...
View ArticleThree Tiers of Accountable Care Organizations
The Healthcare Economist has previously reviewed different forms of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Implementing ACOs in practice, however, may prove more difficult. How could the government...
View ArticleWhy providers love ACOs
“The good thing about the systems not being highly integrated and coordinated is that premiums are lower. Why are those hospitals and physicians [integrating]? It wasn’t for increased coordination of...
View ArticleLegal Barriers to ACO implementation
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are the latest rage in health policy circles. Health reform legislation will allow for federal health agencies to create waiver programs to allow for the creation...
View ArticleAccountable Care Organizations: Update on Medicare Implementation
Health Reform’s Accountable Care Act (ACA) mandates the creation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Dartmouth researcher Elliott Fisher stimulating much of the interest in ACOs by introducing...
View ArticleMedicare Reforms Linking Reimbursement Rates with Hospital Performance
Health reform not only changes the health care market for the demand side (e.g., patients, insurers), but also for the supply side (e.g., hospitals, physicians). In the Medicare setting, a number of...
View ArticleAre ACOs working?
Maybe. An press release from CMS is very upbeat on ACOs. What do the numbers say? Farzad Mostashari and Ross White review the CMS report and find that results were mixed: Of the 114 ACOs in the...
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What does an ACO look like?
ACOs are all the rage, but what does a typical ACO look like ? A study by Shortell et al. (2014) attempts to answer this question using data from the National Survey of ACOs. This survey includes ACOs...
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