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An accountable care organization (ACO) is a healthcare organization characterized by a payment and care delivery model that seeks to tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an assigned group of patients. Accountable Care Organizations: Value Metrics and Capital Formation explores the historical background and evolution of the ACO model as the basis for the development of the value metrics and capital formation analyses that are foundational to assessing the current efficacy and capacity for change. The book examines the four pillars of value in the healthcare industry: regulatory, reimbursement, competition, and technology in addressing the...
"When it comes to healthcare, bigger isn't always better. The early-1990s rise of "megaproviders"--large, hospital-based healthcare systems that have become the norm in American medicine--brought promises of accessibility, cost savings, and excellence to the American healthcare experience. Today's megaproviders, following three decades of growth and consolidation, receive as much as two-thirds of healthcare spending in the United States. Big Med examines the rise of these megaproviders and their formative role in reducing American healthcare to its current shambles. As healthcare organizations have consolidated, they've increased their market power, and in doing so created a system in which ...