2013 represented another year of growth for accountable care organizations, but it also brought a few setbacks to the model’s progression. Here is a look back at events that affected Medicare and ...

Participation in accountable care organizations shows better diabetes care outcomes for patients in rural areas than for those in urban settings.

Thousands of Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare will soon be able to get care through a unique local business that's intended to contain spiraling medical costs by giving patients more ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...

Becoming an accountable care organization (ACO) requires healthcare organizations to approach the revenue cycle with an entirely new mindset. Costs will no longer just affect overall profitability, ...

Hospitals are increasingly looking to more closely align with physicians for a variety of reasons, including the likely evolution of the healthcare industry from a fee-for-service to a global payment ...

One of the missions of the 2010 federal health law is to slow the soaring cost of health care. A key strategy for Medicare is encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as the health reform law, contains more than a thousand pages of often fairly obscure provisions, but Section 3022 has particular ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...