MedCity News December 17, 2020
The health system and payer will coordinate care for eligible Medicare Advantage patients through the ACO, with the aim of improving health outcomes and reducing costs. The ACO expands a long-standing relationship between the two entities.
Intermountain Healthcare, a 24-hospital system based in Utah, and insurer UnitedHealthcare have established an accountable care organization that aims to improve care coordination and health outcomes for the payer’s Medicare Advantage members.
ACOs are networks of physicians and hospitals that share financial and medical responsibility for coordinating patient care with the aim of reducing unnecessary spending, according to Kaiser Health News. Essentially, providers in ACOs earn more if their patients remain healthy. There were 558 Medicare ACOs serving more than 12.3 million beneficiaries, with...
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