New York’s Oliver Wyman Says Half Of U.S. Patients Can Access Obamacare’s ‘Accountable Care Organizations’

Circle Connections: Policy & Regulatory Updates More than half of the U.S. population has access to emerging medical care delivery systems known as accountable care organizations (ACOs), which reward doctors and hospitals for working together to improve quality and to control costs. The latest analysis from consulting firm Oliver Wyman says more than half of the U.S. population lives in "localities served by ACOs," which link medical care providers together to improve quality. If the providers in the ACO achieve better outcomes, they divvy up money saved with the health plans. This was reported by Forbes on February . . .