Skilled Nursing News December 19, 2024
Jack Silverstein

The power of an accountable care organization (ACO) isn’t simply in the care provided or the savings realized — it’s also in stakeholders who recognize they’re part of a greater good.

Michael Camacho, President of Accountable Care for Sound Physicians, was recently reminded of that by one of his board members who also happens to be a partner in his ACO.

“He told me, ‘You guys really have our back here,’” says Camacho, who leads Sound Long-Term Care Management (SLTCM), Sound Physicians’ ACO. “He was grateful for how we help parse and apply data to reduce the risk of unnecessary readmissions for high-acuity patients.”

Rather than trying to “boil the ocean through pushing large amounts of data to providers,” Camacho...

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