RamaOnHealthcare October 5, 2016
The Commonwealth Fund, David Peiris, Madeleine Phipps-Taylor, Stephen M. Shortell, Valerie Lewis, Meredith B. Rosenthal, Carrie H. Colla, Courtney A. Stachowski, and Lee-Sien Kao

Synopsis

Online survey data show that accountable care organizations (ACOs) with commercial contracts outperform ACOs with public-payer contracts on selected measures of quality and process efficiency. These differences in performance are linked to variation in organizational structure, provider compensation, quality improvement activities, and management systems. The public sector can and should play a lead role in supporting and guiding the future growth of ACOs to ensure that desired quality and efficiency gains are realized.

The Issue

“The substantially lower benchmark spending and higher efficiency index of commercial ACOs suggests that they may be considerably ‘leaner’ organizations…compared to ACOs without commercial contracts.”

The past four years have seen rapid growth in the number of ACOs, as various groups rush...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HITECH, Investments, MACRA, Market Research, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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