Accountable care strategies: lessons from the Premier health care alliance's accountable care collaborative
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- Forster, Amanda J. Childs, Blair G. Damore, Joseph F. DeVore, Susan D. Kroch, Eugene A. Lloyd, Danielle A. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Commonwealth Fund, [2012]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Accountable Care Organizations -- organization & administration Cooperative Behavior Interinstitutional Relations Multi-Institutional Systems -- organization & administration Insurance, Health -- organization & administration Medical Informatics Models, Organizational Reimbursement Mechanisms -- organization & administration Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Accountable care organizations (ACOs)--groups of providers that agree to take collective responsibility for delivering and coordinating care for a designated population--are being promoted as a means to improve health and health care while containing costs. This report shares the perspectives of hospitals and health systems taking part in the Premier health care alliance's accountable care implementation collaborative. Lessons emerging from the collaborative relate to the need for ACOs to have certain core structural components; the viability of different organizational models; the importance of people-centered care in all interactions; the need to align business with value-based payments and design incentives to encourage providers to collaborate; the use of financial modeling to assess the impacts of the accountable care model; the need for investments in information technology to enable care coordination; and the importance of performance assessment across a broad range of clinical quality, efficiency, and satisfaction measures.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101591240 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101591240