ACO
Definition:
What's an ACO?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of
doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together
voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients.
The goal of coordinated care is to ensure that patients,
especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while
avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors.
When an ACO succeeds both in delivering high-quality care
and spending health care dollars more wisely, it will share in the savings it
achieves for the Medicare program.
New models encouraging coordinated care?
The CMS Innovation Center offers a menu of alternative
options, including:
•Comprehensive Primary Care initiative
•Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative
•Community Based care Transition Program
ACO do have Quality Measures in place [ 33 ACO Measures
for PY2015 ]
For more information on ACO , please contact us at :
305-227-2383
or 1-877-938-9311
No comments:
Post a Comment