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Jul 25, 2023 · The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has as its primary goal the creation of value for the patients of our healthcare system. One of the main ways it accomplishes value-based outcomes is driven by incentivizing doctors, hospitals, and healthcare providers to coordinate clinically efficient patient care. The healthcare providers become eligible for various (financial and/or other occupationally-based ...
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e. An accountable care organization (ACO) is a healthcare organization that ties provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the cost of care. ACOs in the United States are formed from a group of coordinated health-care practitioners. They use alternative payment models, normally, capitation. The organization is accountable to ...
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): General Information. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to the Medicare patients they serve. Coordinated care helps ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill ...
E X E C U T I V E S U M M A RY. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) represent a changing dynamic in the American. alth care system where providers will increasingly be paid to efectively manage ...
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The History, Evolution, and Future of Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations. A longside its broad changes to the health insurance market, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) authorized the implementation of a wide variety of health care delivery system reforms. Perhaps the most notable of these reforms was the federal recognition of the ...
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care professionals that work together to give patients high-quality, coordinated service and health care, improve health outcomes, and manage costs. ACOs may be in a specific geographic area and/or focused on patients who have a specific condition, like chronic kidney disease.
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Aug 1, 2014 · Key Features of the ACO Concept. An accountable care organization (ACO) is a group of providers—that can include both physicians and hospitals—that accepts joint responsibility for health care spending and quality for a defined population of patients. The ACO concept can be considered an extension of the staff model health maintenance ...
