Accountable Care Organization Case Study

The ACO or Accountable Care Organization is a coordinated group of primary care providers, specialists, and hospitals that collectively share financial and medical responsibility. This ACO is set up through a formal legal arrangement, which has the primary goal of coordination of care focused on reducing costs by sharing patient information and incentives for improved results by decreasing the overall cost of care. Safety will be increased by decreasing possible prescription medication conflicts and costs will be reduced by sharing tests results that were previously done and, therefore, will not need to be repeated. ACOs were started to manage health care needs as part of Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 and are controlled in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid …show more content…
Decision making within the ACO is not strictly configured as there are six types of ACOs identified: full spectrum integrated, independent physician group, physician group alliance, expanded physician group, independent hospital, and hospital alliance.
The ACO impacted Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO) by forming consolidated linkages since Integrated Delivery Networks …show more content…
Using broad-based community efforts and health related activities that go beyond the clinic or hospital setting that utilize the community and public health system to reach those potential patients that range from poverty to housing and influence positive health outcomes. Population Health focuses on addressing social deterrents and forming collaborative relationships with people in the community. Population Health defines societies functioning format as to how the ACO better initiates and produces better health care results by utilizing patient-centered medical homes as an integrated strategy focusing on quality of care provided to patients, and not the quantity of