From a standing start two years ago, there are now more than 300 ACOs in existence, with some yielding promising early results. Larson BK, Van Citters AD, Kreindler SA, Carluzzo KL, Gbemudu JN, Wu FM, ...

Lowering healthcare costs: For the third year in a row, Bluestone ACO ranks in the top five nationally for savings per beneficiary, with an average of $6,212, and among the top 10 ACOs in overall ...

In the search to bring down the costs of health care, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are gaining considerable momentum as one of several ways to align physicians and hospitals so they can ...

A new study details how Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations can improve maternal healthcare quality and equity in the US ...

The success of health reform efforts will depend, in part, on creating new and better ways to organize, deliver, and pay for health care. Increasingly central to this idea is the accountable care ...

Smaller, primary care–centered, physician-led ACOs without hospital affiliation more often achieved lower risk-standardized unplanned HF admission rates, with performance also correlating with ...

A new study led by researchers at the Department of Population Medicine–Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston Medical Center, and Boston University School of Public Health finds that how ...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are a common way healthcare providers can transition from fee-for-service to value-based care delivery. In ACOs, providers come together to deliver quality ...

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 ...

The decision to pursue surgery in patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias is challenging. Accountable care organizations may influence decisions to pursue surgery in this population.

Managed care organization Health Net Inc. said this week that it has formed an accountable care organization with John Muir Health, bringing together a network of medical centers and physicians to ...

Accountable-care organizations are slowly taking root in Orange County. The organizations bring doctors, hospitals and insurers together on efforts to cut costs through greater efficiencies while ...