CPR October 16, 2017
Fun fact! There are almost 1,000 active accountable care organizations (ACO) across the United States, covering more than 32 million lives (~10 percent of the U.S. population). If you are an employer or health care purchaser, you likely are or will soon be affected by these models, which are expected to continue to proliferate.
ACOs burst onto the scene after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, which stipulated that Medicare would experiment with new ways to deliver and pay for care. ACOs bring together a group of health care providers and hold them accountable for the cost and quality of their patients’ care based on meeting financial and quality performance targets. After Medicare starting piloting ACOs,...
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