Latest ACO Headlines…

Reducing health care costs takes education, not just expanded coverage, 1/3/14, Triad Business Journal

More partnerships between doctors and hospitals strengthen coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries  
123 New Accountable Care Organizations Join Program to Improve Care for  Medicare beneficiaries, press release, CMS 12/23/13

More Than Half of U.S. Hospitals Aim for ACOs by 2015, Execs Say, 12/17/13, Modern Healthcare

Beth Kutscher relates that less than a quarter of providers are expected to have formed or joined an ACO by the end of 2013…according to data from Premier’s 2013 Economic Outlook. However, more than three-quarters of respondents said they have plans to eventually join the estimated 500 existing ACOs.