Accountable Care Organizations in Medicare and the Private Sector: A Status Update
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Many health care providers, policymakers, and analysts complain about the incentives inherent in the current fee-for-service payment approach, which rewards providers financially for prescribing as many services as possible while driving up health care costs for patients. For many, the holy grail of health policy-making has been to find a model that aligns health care providers’ and patients’ interests. In the 1980s and ’90s, some thought that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) might be such a model, but patients, encouraged by their physicians, eventually objected to HMOs’ perceived intrusion into patient care decisions, causing HMOs to back off from some of their earlier approaches and to now fade from prominence.
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