Accountable care organizations: an opportunity for synergy.

Prognosis for synergy between accountable care organizations and bundled payments in Medicare.

Evolving accreditation. Rise of ACOs prompts group to expand services beyond ambulatory care.

“The movement to accountable care organizations and other recent trends has led to more health systems reabsorbing primary-care physicians and free-standing ambulatorycare settings back into the hospital,” Burke said in an April release announcing the program. “AAAHC saw an opportunity to improve patient care by offering a program that addresses both outpatient and inpatient hospital care and t...

Moving toward implementation: the potential for accountable care organizations and private-public partnerships to advance active neighborhood design.

The 2010 Affordable Care Act's (ACA) aims of lowering costs and improving quality of care will renew focus on preventive health strategies. This coincides with a trend in medicine to reconsider population health approaches as part of the standard curriculum. This intersection of new policy and educational climates presents a unique opportunity to reconsider traditional healthcare structures. Th...

Accountable Care Organizations and Clinical Commissioning Groups Face an Uncertain Challenge for Improving Public Health

UNLABELLED Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in the United States of America (USA) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in the United Kingdom (UK) are newly proposed cross-organisational structures in health services both tasked with a role which includes improving public health. Although there are very significant differences between the UK and USA health systems, there appears to be s...

A national strategy to put accountable care into practice.

The concept of accountable care organizations (ACOs) has been set forth in recently enacted national health reform legislation as a strategy to address current shortcomings in the U.S. health care system. This paper focuses on implementation issues related to these organizations, building on some initial examples. We seek to clarify definitions and key principles, provide an update on implement...