Regulators as Market-Makers: Accountable Care Organizations and Competition Policy

Accountable care organizations and Market Power Issues

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have received significant attention since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the spring of 2010. The ACA directs the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to create the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which encourages groups of providers (e.g., group practices, networks of individual practices,...

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...

A taxonomy of accountable care organizations for policy and practice.

OBJECTIVE To develop an exploratory taxonomy of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to describe and understand early ACO development and to provide a basis for technical assistance and future evaluation of performance. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Data from the National Survey of Accountable Care Organizations, fielded between October 2012 and May 2013, of 173 Medicare, Medicaid, and commerci...

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.