Newsletter Articles | May 19, 2015
ACOs As The New Population Health Management Tool – A Market Report
Wondering about the future of accountable care organizations (ACOs)? If you aren’t, you should be as they are one of the two primary models used in the shift from horizontal, specialty-specific management and financing of health and human services – to vertical, consumer-specific management and financing models. (The other is medical homes/health homes, and for more on that see this month’s coverage in The OPEN MINDS Medical Home Update).
This is the difference between funding a block of specific services (e.g . . .