Fortune November 15, 2023
Accountable care, the fast-growing nationwide Medicare program with a goal of improving health care while reducing costs, resulted in no improvements in mental health care, according to a study released earlier this month.
The study found that patients who were not initially enrolled in an accountable care organization and switched to one were no more likely to get mental health treatment and had no improvements in their symptoms after a year compared to those in regular Medicare.
“Overall, accountable care organizations had no effect on the quality of mental health care: All the outcome measures were zero except for one treatment measure for depression, which was actually worse,” said study senior author Kenton Johnston, Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine...
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