The health care reform legislation enacted in March 2010 authorizes the Medicare program to contract with accountable care organizations (ACOs). These are networks of physicians and other providers ...

Do accountable care organizations save money? ACOs have potential for success in improving the quality of and access to care, and these models promise to provide sustainable reform of healthcare costs ...

One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce health care costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form networks that coordinate patient care and ...

One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce healthcare costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form networks to coordinate care better, which ...

Orange County’s larger hospital groups are continuing to dip their toes into the waters of accountable-care organizations. Such structures bring hospitals, insurers and doctors’ groups together in an ...

The 51 accountable care organizations that serve Medicare beneficiaries in New York collectively generated roughly $450 million in total savings for the national health insurance program last year, ...

New patient care models are emerging in waves, each with their own acronym: accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes and consumer operated and oriented plans are just a few of ...

Accountable care organizations have proliferated in the past three years. The increase has been spurred by private payors’ interest in coordinated care management and the Patient Protection and ...

Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organizations spent less on surgical care by reducing inpatient surgery, increasing outpatient surgery, and reducing spending on postacute care after ...

Over the past several years, there has been an increasing focus on improving the "value" of care delivered by the healthcare system. Among the strongest advocates for “value” have been my mentor ...

Health Policy Experts Identify Promising Strategies for Providing Health Care to Homeless People Organizations aiming to help ...