Medical Economics January 14, 2026
Key Takeaways
- ACOs enhance patient care by managing conditions, ensuring affordable access, and identifying wasteful healthcare spending through data analysis.
- Excessive spending on skin substitutes in Medicare has raised concerns about fraud, waste, and patient harm, prompting policy changes.
- ACOs face challenges in controlling spending on inappropriate treatments by non-affiliated providers, despite being financially accountable.
- Patient harm from inappropriate skin substitute use includes severe infections and fatalities, highlighting the need for improved oversight and care management.
The CEO of advocacy group Accountable for Health discusses what ACOs found in Medicare’s massive spending on skin substitutes.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) aim to improve patient care by managing their conditions and maintaining access to affordable care.
To do so, ACOs...
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