ACOs
Despite efforts to cut costs and improve care through coordinated teams of providers and organizations, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are filled with bureaucracy and micromanagement, according to an editorial published in The Wall Street Journal.
Learn how ACOs will impact their patients, and how doctors will get compensated, as well as the top ten most frequently asked questions about clinical integration (CI) and accountable care organization (ACOs).
Xcenda's newest white paper, "The Drive to High-Value Healthcare -- Are ACOs the Answer?" explains the fundamentals behind the ACO initiative and sheds light on what manufacturers can expect as ACOs are implemented as part of healthcare reform.
Medicare said it has seen strong results from a five-year demonstration project with goals that are similar to ACOs' - lowering costs by improving quality and shifting away from paying doctors to perform more procedures. (Source: The Hill's Healthcare Blog)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has prompted CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) in the US to draft a proposal for establishing Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s). This draft proposal outlines a concept for enrolling patients into healthcare provider systems (local networks of hospitals, physicians, laboratories, etc) to coordinate a continuum of care to keep patients healthy and to better manage their diseases for improved clinical outcomes at lower cost.
In a first report of its kind, Leavitt Partners' Center for ACO Intelligence released a white paper regarding the types and locations of ACOs. The report provides data-driven insights into the evolution of ACOs following federal health reform and the recent announcement of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Data and analysis on the growth and national dispersion trends of more than 160 ACO or ACO-like organizations are highlighted.
