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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 797–819.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Thomas D'Aunno; Peter D. Friedmann; Qixuan Chen; Donna M. Wilson Abstract To meet their aims of managing population health to improve the quality and cost of health care in the United States, accountable care organizations (ACOs) will need to focus on coordinating care for individuals...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 821–837.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Lawrence P. Casalino; Natalie Erb; Maulik S. Joshi; Stephen M. Shortell Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals are investing in improving “population health,” by which they nearly always mean the health of the “population” of patients “attributed” by Medicare, Medicaid...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 639–645.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Richard M. Scheffler Abstract Will accountable care organizations (ACOs) deliver high-quality care at lower costs? Or will their potential market power lead to higher prices and lower quality? ACOs appear in various forms and structures with financial and clinical integration at their core; however...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 761–796.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Eric Kessell; Vishaal Pegany; Beth Keolanui; Brent D. Fulton; Richard M. Scheffler; Stephen M. Shortell Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have proliferated under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If ACOs are to improve health care quality and lower costs, quality measures...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 705–710.
Published: 01 August 2015
... will cripple the state and federal budgets and slow economic growth in other sectors in the years to come. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and insurer formation of narrow provider networks are two oft-discussed policies to reduce costs, with both having been implemented to some degree in practice...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 745–760.
Published: 01 August 2015
... payers are experimenting with payment systems that combine the basic element of FFS — a fee for each service — with arrangements that allow providers to share the savings if they hold total spending per patient below a targeted amount. Medicare's accountable care organizations (ACOs) embody the shared...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 875–886.
Published: 01 August 2015
... not impede accountable care organizations (ACOs) and similar collaborations that advance these same goals of better and more efficient care; in fact, by fostering competitive markets, the antitrust laws encourage such initiatives. This article summarizes the legal framework that the federal antitrust...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 905–910.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Daniel M. Fox Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 The purpose of this commentary is to describe how regulations for the accountability of accountable care organizations (ACOs) could reduce patients' risks of receiving care that is unsafe and of inferior quality by addressing more...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 647–668.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Stephen M. Shortell; Carrie H. Colla; Valerie A. Lewis; Elliott Fisher; Eric Kessell; Patricia Ramsay Abstract There are now more than seven hundred accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the United States. This article describes some of their most salient characteristics including the number...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 669–688.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Brent D. Fulton; Vishaal Pegany; Beth Keolanui; Richard M. Scheffler Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) result in physician organizations' and hospitals' receiving risk-based payments tied to costs, health care quality, and patient outcomes. This article (1) describes California ACOs...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 689–703.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Christopher Whaley; H. E. Frech, III; Richard M. Scheffler Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs), one of the most recent and promising health care delivery innovations, encourage care coordination among providers. While ACOs hold promise for decreasing costs by reducing unnecessary...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (4): 901–917.
Published: 01 August 2014
... embraced the concept of the accountable care organization to help improve quality and efficiency while addressing financial shortfalls. The experience of Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) in Massachusetts, where health care reform began six years ago, provides insight into the opportunities and challenges...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (6): 1185–1211.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Joel C. Cantor; Sujoy Chakravarty; Jian Tong; Michael J. Yedidia; Oliver Lontok; Derek DeLia Abstract A small but growing number of states are turning to accountable care concepts to improve their Medicaid programs. In 2011 New Jersey enacted the Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (1): 63–92.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Steven B. Spivack; Genevra F. Murray; Valerie A. Lewis Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were envisioned as a way to address both health care cost growth and uneven quality in US health care. They emerged in the early 2000s, with the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) establishing...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (4): 709–727.
Published: 01 August 2012
... that the solution to Medicare's cost-containment challenge lies in quality improvement. He is optimistic that accountable care organizations can deliver savings and suggests that shifting risk downstream to providers throws the health insurance model into question. Finally, looking to the future, Berwick sees...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (3): 475.
Published: 01 June 2011
... the promise of particular initiatives. Harold S. Luft considers the likelihood that accountable care organizations will take hold in the U.S. delivery system. Michael K. Gusmano examines the politics of cost-effectiveness research and its potential to improve care and control costs. Timothy Stoltzfus Jost...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 633–638.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Colleen M. Grogan Abstract This introductory essay to JHPPL 's special issue on accountable care organizations (ACOs) presents the broader themes addressed in the issue, including (1) a central tension between cooperation versus competition in health care markets with regard to how to bring about...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 887–896.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Kathleen E. Foote; Emilio E. Varanini Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs), joint ventures of commercial insurers and various groups of medical providers such as physicians, specialists, and hospitals whose development in California has been quickened by the Affordable Care Act, carry...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (3): 455–482.
Published: 01 June 2018
... reengineering measures such as accountable care organizations, pay for performance, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Even the meaning of evidence for some measures (e.g., reengineering) was different from that for others (e.g., price regulation). Being heavily promoted by the most prestigious policy experts did...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 711–744.
Published: 01 August 2015
... and delivery models being pioneered in Medicare, especially those built around accountable care organizations (ACOs), offer an opportunity to reduce pricing power, but only if they are implemented with a clear eye on the impact on prices in commercial insurance markets. This article proposes approaches...
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