Medical Economics April 15, 2024
Richard Payerchin

Culture, data, clinical change and patients all are essential to operating accountable care organizations, experts say.

Successful accountable care organizations (ACOs) have lessons to share with their peer health systems, said five organization leaders who spoke at the spring conference of the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS).

ACOs have success stories to share, but those have come through hard work, they said. The discussion was part of the Spring Conference of NAACOS, held April 11 and 12 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Integrating ACO models involve initial startup costs, changing culture and behavior, learning to harness technology and uncertainty and delays of getting shared savings from Medicare, said Allison Brennan, an analyst researching the “NAACOS Drivers of ACO Success” white paper to...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), Conferences / Podcast, Payment Models, Primary care, Provider, Trends, Value Based
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