Modern Healthcare February 13, 2017
In the ongoing debate over how accountable care organizations can lower costs and improve health, two new studies offer insights into the nuances of how ACOs affect spending, utilization and quality.
Authors of both studies emphasized the importance of time in assessing the effectiveness of ACOs. But this resource is in short supply as President Donald Trump and his new health secretary, Tom Price, look to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which launched numerous initiatives to pay for healthcare on the basis of value, not volume.
Both of the ACOs studies were published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. One looked at post-acute care spending in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, finding that those ACOs did appear to save Medicare dollars...
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