Radiology in pioneer accountable care organizations: much ado about nothing?

Accountable Care Growth In 2014: A Look Ahead

On December 23, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced 123 new Medicare Shared Savings Program [1] (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). This represents the fourth round of MSSP participants, which, coupled with the Pioneer ACOs, brings the number of Medicare ACOs to 366. Some of these organizations were already known to be ACOs, including those that transferred ...

Much ado about (almost) nothing.

Characteristics of Rural Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) – A Survey of Medicare ACOs with Rural Presence.

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of health care providers, principally physicians and hospitals, who develop a new entity that contracts to provide coordinated care to assigned patients with the goal of improving quality of care while controlling costs. Section 3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 created the Medicare Shared Savings Program (SSP). The C...

Adopting accountable care through the Medicare framework.

By enacting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), Congress provoked change in the status quo in American health care delivery and payment. Although challenged by conservative voices resistant to change, the ACA survived its recent constitutional challenge. Regardless of how Congress tries to amend the ACA in the future, one vestige of the ACA likely to remain at least in...

ACR white paper: Strategies for radiologists in the era of health care reform and accountable care organizations: a report from the ACR Future Trends Committee.

Accountable care organizations have received considerable attention as a component of health care reform and have been specifically addressed in recent national legislation and demonstration projects by CMS. The role or roles of radiologists in such organizations are currently unclear, as are changes to the ways in which imaging services will be delivered. The authors review concepts fundamenta...