The authors of this study examined expense reports to understand how participants in Medicare’s Accountable Care Organization Investment Model spent to achieve program goals. Objectives: To understand ...

Do accountable care organizations save money? ACOs have potential for success in improving the quality of and access to care, and these models promise to provide sustainable reform of healthcare costs ...

One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce health care costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form networks that coordinate patient care and ...

David J. Nyweide ([email protected]) is a social science research analyst in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in Baltimore, Maryland.

The 51 accountable care organizations that serve Medicare beneficiaries in New York collectively generated roughly $450 million in total savings for the national health insurance program last year, ...

Orange County’s larger hospital groups are continuing to dip their toes into the waters of accountable-care organizations. Such structures bring hospitals, insurers and doctors’ groups together in an ...

The organizations cited rising COVID cases and trust in the vaccine. The American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association have joined up with over 50 other health care organizations to ...

One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce healthcare costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form networks to coordinate care better, which ...

Americans will soon be hearing more about a new type of entity: accountable care organizations. That’s because the health care reform legislation enacted earlier this year authorizes Medicare to ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...

Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations spent less on surgical care by reducing inpatient surgery, increasing outpatient surgery, and reducing spending on postacute care after ...

Over the past several years, there has been an increasing focus on improving the "value" of care delivered by the healthcare system. Among the strongest advocates for “value” have been my mentor ...