Explaining Sluggish Savings under Accountable Care

Primary care focus and utilization in the Medicare shared savings program accountable care organizations

BACKGROUND Although Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are defined by the provision of primary care services, the relationship between the intensity of primary care and population-level utilization and costs of health care services has not been examined during early implementation of Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs. Our objective was to evaluate the association between primary ca...

Accountable care organizations.

Accountable care organizations.

Cardiology and accountable care.

Managed Care and Accountable Care Organizations

Managed care generally, and more specifically, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have attempted to provide coordination of patient care in order to eliminate or reduce unnecessary procedures and or test redundancy. The purpose of this research was to study the effects of managed care in accountable care organizations by decreasing health care costs by increasing efficiency in health care.