Healthcare Innovation September 3, 2019
Mark Hagland

A study just published in the American Journal of Managed Care speaks to the opportunities—still largely unfulfilled—of growing care coordination activities under value-based contracts

As Managing Editor Rajiv Leventhal noted in his Aug. 29 report, “A study of more than 1,600 U.S. hospitals revealed that value-based programs such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) appear to encourage the adoption and spread of care coordination activities by hospitals. For the study, researchers categorized value-based program participation as participation in either an ACO or a bundled payment program. They then assessed adoption—whether a hospital was using any of a set of 12 care coordination activities as outlined in an American Hospital Association (AHA) survey—and spread (in each hospital adopting care coordination activities, how...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), Health System / Hospital, Patient / Consumer, Payment Models, Physician, Provider, Value Based
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