Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations in Four States: Implementation and Early Impacts

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 ...

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.

Managed Care and Accountable Care Organizations

Managed care generally, and more specifically, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have attempted to provide coordination of patient care in order to eliminate or reduce unnecessary procedures and or test redundancy. The purpose of this research was to study the effects of managed care in accountable care organizations by decreasing health care costs by increasing efficiency in health care.