Delivery of preventive cardiovascular care seems to improve for patients covered by Medicaid when accountable care ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...

2013 represented another year of growth for accountable care organizations, but it also brought a few setbacks to the model’s progression. Here is a look back at events that affected Medicare and ...

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 ...

To improve population health, accountable care models should adopt stronger population-health focused measures and complete the transition from fee-for-service to capitation. We argue here that a ...