Toward Accountable Cancer Care

Toward High-Performance Accountable Care: Promise and Pitfalls

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) establishes a new category of health care provider—the accountable care organization (ACO)—within the Medicare program, with rules for provider participation and principles for sharing in the savings generated by this form of coordinated health care delivery. In this second blog post in a series on health care financing, we address th...

Accountable care organizations.

Accountable care organizations.

Cardiology and accountable care.

Oncology patient-centered medical home and accountable cancer care

Correspondence to: John D. Sprandio, MD, Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology, PC, 2100 Keystone Avenue, Suite 502, MOB, Drexel Hill, PA 19026; telephone: 610622-3818; fax: 610-622-6407; e-mail: jsprandio @cmoh.org. M edical oncologists are playing an ever-expanding role in the de livery of cancer care. The current and future challenges they face in their efforts to deliver effective,...