Home Health & Hospice Week
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Accountable Care Organizations Reduce Medicare Spending By Hundreds Of Millions
Published on Fri May 15, 2015
Accountable Care Organizations have gotten mixed reviews, but their money-saving capabilities make them attractive to policymakers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hopes to pay for quality — not quantity — of care in the future, which means many of the payments could take place through accountable care organizations (ACOs). The Journal of the American Medical Association recently reported that participants in the Pioneer ACO program saved Medicare $212 million in 2012 and $105 million in 2013
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