H&HN March 1, 2017
ACOs have improved outcomes and efficiency, but they will need to adapt to a changing landscape.
Nothing will mark the era of the Affordable Care Act circa 2010–2016 more significantly than the advent of accountable care organizations, an integrated group of providers that accept clinical and financial risk for managing a designated population. Today, more than 850 ACOs coordinate care for 28 million Medicare, Medicaid and commercial enrollees, betting that they can improve outcomes and reduce costs simultaneously.
With “repeal and replace” underway and an alternative payment program skeptic leading the Department of Health & Human Services (Secretary Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon who believes value-based payment programs add complexity to the work of clinicians), the future of ACOs...
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