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Accountable Care Organizations

Hospitals, physician groups, and other provider organizations around the country are responding to one of the latest big ideas in health care: accountable care organizations (ACOs). ACOs are a centerpiece of health care delivery reform contained within the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), and are being touted by proponents as a solution to today's expensive and fragmented care system. With respect to ACOS, the Market & Policy Monitor program is examining the landscape, studying the regulatory issues connected to the creation of ACOs; and determining how ACOs would work in the public sector (community clinics and public hospitals).

Listed below are publications and projects that CHCF's Market & Policy Monitor Program has contributed in the area of ACOs.

Physician-Hospital Integration 2012

April 2012

Physicians and hospitals are increasingly looking to integrate in response to changing economic conditions and the promptings of the Affordable Care Act.

Accountable Care Organizations in California: Programmatic and Legal Considerations

July 2011

Health reform includes ambitious experiments to improve coordination of care. This report examines whether California's regulatory framework can support new ACO models.

Accountable Care Organizations: Avoiding Pitfalls of the Past

December 2010

As ACOs become the new thing through health reform, read stories from the trenches by leaders who rode out waves of consolidation in the 1980s and '90s. Most of them did not succeed.

Physician-Hospital Integration in the Era of Health Reform

December 2010

This comprehensive paper explores physician-hospital integration through an examination of the dynamics of interdependence and competition in the context of health reform.

SAFER California Healthcare Coalition Meeting

May 2006

This publication provides an overview of a September 2005, meeting of the SAFER California Healthcare coalition — including the University of California’s five medical campuses and supporters — created to advance California’s patient safety agenda.