Questions and answers about ACOs

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Feb 18 2012

News organizations field questions and offer answers about accountable care organizations.

Medscape: 15 Tough Questions Doctors Ask About ACOs
Many hospitals, health centers, large physician groups, and insurers are working toward or considering forming ACOs, and physicians are being approached to participate. ... The CMS have implemented demonstration projects that incorporate the ACO concept, and several private payers have fielded their own versions of the idea. ... Medscape spoke to Anders M. Gilberg, senior vice president of Government Affairs, Medical Group Management Association (Guglielmo, 2/16).

Kaiser Health News: Capsules: An Animated Conversation Over ACOs
Accountable Care Organizations are a continuing source of interest to both health care providers and consumers. We at KHN have called them 'the hottest three-letter word in health care.' Now WBUR's CommonHealth blog has put together a video animation that walks viewers through how ACOs work and what that means for consumers" (Eisenhower, 2/16).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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