Accountable Care Organization Model- Alliance ACO
MHA 536 Strategic Leadership in Healthcare
Candice Cole
04/12/2017
Introduction The advent of medical advancement has grown over the past decades. The access to this technology is also limited depending on the level of Health care services in a certain country. ACOs or Accountable Care Organization is specifically available in the United States. It is a group of health care practitioners that ties up cost-efficiency to quality care. ACO are primarily accountable to patients. According to the official denomination of ACO, it is an organization that partakes in regulating the cost of the medical care and its quality for individuals (Medicare Beneficiaries) that are …show more content…
The challenge was on how to widen the audience coverage of the said project. Alliance ACO is already listed as one of the 48 ACO investment model systems in the United States. This has given them a little bit of an advantage but it does not guarantee the consumer good reception. Healthcare Providers must also know the network of physicians within the ACO (CMS Blog, 2017). Moreover, specializations with the Alliance ACO must be highlighted in marketing proposals. Specific health needs are also prioritized during the demographics. According to the official data of Alliance ACO around 87% of people that are acquiring the model are situated in rural areas. This is an additional advantage for the model as it expands its coverage to suburbs. This would entail those services in the Alliance ACO model can be tapped even if the consumer is in the …show more content…
This would eventually widen the leverage for quality health care and cost efficiency in the business. It somehow regularize the expensive cost of medical care in the United States. Alliance ACO is doing good in terms of its beginning phase. Based on the graph the trend is an aggressive form of growth which is a good determininant of profitability. Challenges on growth must also be address to avoid business interruption or even lowered incomes due to low consumer attraction. Nevertheless, given that the Alliance ACO will always opt for innovation and would not settle for less evaluation then the progress of the model can really be in a positive