A Comparison of Screening Mechanisms for Identifying Potentially Anticompetitive Accountable Care Organizations

Accountable care organizations.

Accountable care organizations.

Accountable Care Organizations and Population Health Organizations.

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals are investing in improving "population health," by which they nearly always mean the health of the "population" of patients "attributed" by Medicare, Medicaid, or private health insurers to their organizations. But population health can and should also mean "the health of the entire population in a geographic area." We present arguments for an...

Accountable care organizations: Implications for antitrust policy

Introduction T his analysis examines accountable care organizations (ACOs) and assesses their implications for antitrust policy. Consideration of the antitrust implications of ACOs is timely. Both the House and Senate health reform measures contemplate the creation of ACOs as a new class of Medicare provider while providing parallel legal authority under Medicaid. It also is possible that using...

Accountable care organizations: an opportunity for synergy.

While family medicine has signifi cant experience with PBRNs, it has not found funding support to build the signifi cant research infrastructure required to perform large scale clinical trials that link a large number of PBRNs. Historically, large RCTs have recruited subjects divorced from the clinical care setting and community, and have been costly. The ADFM proposal to support an integrated ...