After years of steady ACO growth, our last several ACO tracking updates have shown plateaus or slight declines. As we noted in prior years, this was likely partially a result of policies that ...

The authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination ...

A coalition of organizations, including the AHA, urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to ensure accountable care organizations and Merit-based Incentive Payment System-eligible ...

As hospitals and physician groups prepare to launch accountable care organizations and similar payment models, surgery centers are left to ponder their role in the post-health reform world. Marc ...

Wyo., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., on Thursday introduced bipartisan legislation to expand access to quality-driven health care.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as the health reform law, contains more than a thousand pages of often fairly obscure provisions, but Section 3022 has particular ...

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.

As the post-acute care industry continues transitioning towards a value-based care system, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) should start to consider participating in an Accountable Care Organization ...

Only a couple of years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for healthcare experts to call accountable care organizations “unicorns.” Despite the excitement and discussion around the model, few people had seen one ...

There are more than 500 public and private accountable care organizations in the United States, and the number is growing. Here are five key statistics on ACOs based on data from the Health ...

The focus of the national media and sites such as this one has been on the promise of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to transform the American healthcare delivery system in a way that the ...

Having been blessed by the new health reform legislation, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are a hot topic in the health policy world, as evidenced by the just-concluded and well-attended ...