Accountable Care Organizations – A Building Block for the Future of Health Care
The Accountable Care Act promoted ACOs through a variety of programs: Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, Partnerships for Patients Initiative, Pioneer and Advanced Payment ACO Models and Medicare Shared Savings Program for ACOs. The central program is the Medicare Shared Savings Program, under which ACOs gradually share in the cost savings they achieve through providing coordinated and consistent care to groups of Medicare beneficiaries while meeting quality targets.
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