Healthcare Innovation September 3, 2019
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...