Healthcare Innovation April 19, 2019
Mark Hagland

Are ACO leaders really ready to take on all the patients attributed to them—even the most challenging ones? The authors of a new study are highlighting the issues involved

Are accountable care organization (ACO) leaders really ready to take on all the patients attributed to them—even the most challenging ones? The question is far from abstract. Indeed, the further that patient care organization leaders push into risk-based contracting, the clearer certain challenges become. That’s especially true as ACOs grow larger in size and inevitably take on both bigger populations and find themselves with more and more Medicare and commercial health plan members who have greater medical needs.

And into that breach has come a new study, published in the Health...

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