Modern Healthcare October 6, 2018
The accountable care organization’s quality scores in the Medicare Shared Savings Program are in the 90th percentile. It saved Medicare about $60 million last year. And the whole process has enhanced its providers’ abilities to not only manage their patients’ care, but collaborate with one another.
“The physicians in the system I think are working more closely together than they’ve ever worked,” said Don Franke, senior vice president of population health for Chicago-based Amita Health and CEO of the Amita Health Care Network.
But like many others, the Amita Health Care Network would consider calling it quits if it had to move the ACO into the...