Realizing the Potential of Accountable Care in Medicaid

Commonwealth Fund April 12, 2023
Meredith B. Rosenthal, Shehnaz Alidina, Hardy Ding, Amit Kumar

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While research on Medicaid accountable care organizations is limited, studies suggest they have achieved notable improvements in health care quality, costs, and, to a lesser degree, equity

State and federal policymakers have an important role to play in supporting the broader adoption of Medicaid ACOs, which are often impeded by complex regulations and stakeholder resistance

Abstract

• Issue: Accountable care organizations (ACOs), designed to hold health care providers responsible for the quality and overall cost of patient care, have played a leading role in U.S. efforts to improve health system performance. While much of the experimentation with ACOs has focused on the Medicare program, Medicaid ACOs have been established in more than a dozen states. Much less is known,...

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