HealthIT Answers November 29, 2023
Accountable care organizations have been around in Medicare for more than a decade, generating more than $22 billion in savings and giving back more than $8 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund. But a handful of ACOs has consistently been at the top of the list of top savers, including Millennium Physician Group and Palm Beach ACO, both in Florida, and Privia Health, a physician enablement company based in Northern Virginia. Leaders of those ACOs shared their pearls of wisdom at the NAACOS Fall 2023 Conference.
Two consistent themes were: Improving patient access to care and engaging physicians.
Patient Access to Care
Palm Beach ACO stressed improved access to care, which includes more preventive care, more urgent care, and more...