Accountable Care Organizations: can we have our cake and eat it too?
نویسنده
چکیده
The health care debate has largely focused on the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA) aimed at expanding health insurance coverage to all Americans, most notably the individual mandate requirement. The ACA, however, also takes important steps to address the companion challenge of making health care coverage affordable by reigning in health care costs. These steps include various initiatives under the ACA that encourage the formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs)clinically integrated organizations of primary care physicians and other providers that, through various payment mechanisms, are rewarded for both raising the quality and lowering the cost of care provided to their patients. Many believe that ACOs hold great promise for achieving cost savings given their financial incentives to do so. But proponents of ACOs do not simply contend that ACOs can stabilize health care costs; they also claim that ACOs can simultaneously improve the quality of care provided to patients. Indeed, President Obama has identified ACOs as an important strategy for lowering health care spending while improving the quality of care. To support their
منابع مشابه
Hypothermia, immune suppression and SDD: can we have our cake and eat it?
In vitro studies and clinical observations suggest that both accidental and controlled/therapeutic hypothermia have a strong immunosuppressive effect, and that hypothermia increases the risk of infections, especially wound infections and pneumonia. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Kamps and colleagues report that when hypothermia was used for prolonged periods in patients with severe tra...
متن کاملCan Accountable Care Organizations Improve the Value of Health Care by Solving the Cost and Quality Quandaries?
In the current health reform discussions, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have been proposed as a novel way to slow rising health care costs and to improve quality in the traditional Medicare program and perhaps other public and private insurance programs. However, for many, it is not clear what ACOs are and whether and how they differ from other past reform approaches intended to achieve...
متن کاملThrow One's Cake - and Eat It Too
We consider the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous cake between a number of players with different tastes. In this setting, it is known that fairness requirements may result in a suboptimal division from the social welfare standpoint. Here, we show that in some cases, discarding some of the cake and fairly dividing only the remainder may be socially preferable to any fair division of th...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
- Seton Hall law review
دوره 42 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012