A group of health care providers who give coordinated care, chronic disease management, and thereby improve the quality of care patients get. The organization's payment is tied to achieving healt [..]

Accountable care organization (ACO) is an umbrella term for a major switch in contracting between providers and public or private payers. In an ACO model, a group of providers, operating as a legal en [..]

Group of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to specific patients, most often Medicare patients.

A group of doctors who work together to manage patient care. Health care reform law offers incentives for doctors to form Medicare ACOs starting in 2012.

A type of payment and healthcare delivery model that ties reimbursement of providers to quality metrics to encourage collaboration among participating providers and with the goal to reduce costs and improve the quality of care provided to assigned patients.

Has your hospital or health care system established an accountable care organization (ACO)? Yes = the hospital is part of an ACO, or is actively working to establish or join an ACO in the future; No = [..]

It is a group of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. They work together to coordinate patient care. They are responsible for:

Organizations of Health Care Providers that agree to be accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service program who ar [..]

 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 popu [..]

A network of health care providers that band together to provide the full continuum of health care services for patients. The network would receive a payment for all care provided to a patient, and would be held accountable for the quality and cost of care. Proposed pilot programs in Medicare and Medicaid would provide financial incentives for thes [..]