Accountable care organizations in the USA: Types, developments and challenges

Developmental Strategies and Challenges of Rural Accountable Care Organizations.

This policy brief shares insights gained from site visits in 2013 to four Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) serving rural Medicare beneficiaries. Initial strategic decisions made and challenges faced as the ACOs were being developed can inform development of other rural ACOs. Key Findings. (1) The rural ACOs we studied were formed as a step toward a value-driven rural delivery system, recog...

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.

Accountable care organizations.

Structuring Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations to avoid antitrust challenges.

 J.D., New York University School of Law; Research Fellow & Lecturer in Law, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law. The author was a member of a working group in New Jersey that collaborated to identify issues to assist the State in its drafting of regulations to implement its Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) legislation, which is the ...