ACOs, seemingly wary of stirring a similar backlash, allow Medicare patients to obtain care anywhere they choose, but there is no preferential pricing, discounting or other way for ACOs to steer patients to the most effective providers.
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ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring and now most private insurers like those operated by Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
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ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring and now most private insurers like those operated by Aetna (AET), UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
ACOs began contracting with the Medicare program this spring under an initiative that is part of the Affordable Care Act and now most private insurers like UnitedHealth, Aetna (AET), Humana (HUM), Cigna (CI) and most Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients.
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ACOs are taking off in the private sector, taking on a larger role with employers.
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The big cost lever for ACOs is successful treatment on the first hospital admission, avoiding re-admission.
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ACOs work to keep patients healthy and out of the more expensive hospital setting.
Also, under the health care reform law Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will be created in 2012.
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So, hooray for ACOs, and let's keep inching toward true competition in health services.
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ACOs hold providers responsible for delivering successful and efficient care, once a diagnosis is established.
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Unlike HMOs, the Medicare ACOs let patients see a range of doctors if they wish.
Will accountable care organizations (ACOs), which are designed to pay for outcomes, not procedures, help with this?
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The third and final flawed assumption of the Affordable Care Act is that ACOs will save money.
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Chase has been invited to the White House, presented before the head of Medicare and the Pioneer ACOs.
The health care law signed by the President plans a significant expansion of ACOs -- Accountable Care Organizations.
ACOs are groups of hospitals and doctors that are held responsible for a distinct set of Medicare patients.
UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Wellpoint (WLP) as well as Blue Cross plans linking with ACOS to care for more patients.
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The second mistaken assumption is that ACOs can succeed without changing patient behavior.
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Under the Affordable Care Act, larger doctor groups and hospitals are forming ACOs to contract with the Medicare program.
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of healthcare providers and medical professionals who come together voluntarily to coordinate patient care.
Additionally, by knowing the profitability associated with different types of care, ACOs could go a step further: they could securitize.
But what ACOs most assuredly will not do is deliver the disruptive innovation that the U.S. health-care system urgently needs.
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UnitedHealth Group (UNH) as well as Blue Cross plans are linking with ACOs to care for more patients through their employers.
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ACOs last year began providing medical care services to seniors through contracts with the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly.
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But the Oliver Wyman report is beginning to confirm predictions that ACOs would take off in the private sector as well.
ACOs link medical care providers together to improve quality and control costs.
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Sort of like the more modern version ACOs with shared savings which is where you have to worry about the gatekeeper problem.
Doctors are also including pharmacists in their ACOS and both Walgreen and CVS are forming closer relationships with doctor and hospital systems.
Skeptics say ACOs will be a repeat of the failings of HMOs.
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UnitedHealth, the biggest insurer by revenue, is rolling out pay-for-performance contracts for hospitals, as well as testing its own medical homes and ACOs.
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