Arizona’s Accountable Care Expands To Include United Healthcare Participants

Circle Connections: Mergers & Acquisitions More than 180,000 Southern Arizonans enrolled in UnitedHealthcare's employer-sponsored health benefit plans will now participate in the Tucson Medical Center's ACO. The accountable care organization model aims to increase patient satisfaction, improve the health of the population and reduce the costs of health care. There's not much different that a patient must do to participate in the accountable care organization. Participating primary care physicians receive monthly updates on the patients, enabling them to monitor all of the care each patient is receiving and access the patient's care in one . . .