Taking Risks, Finding Rewards: The Ochsner Accountable Care Organization Strategy

This presentation was delivered June 8, 2016 at The Strategy & Innovation Institute by Victoria McGhee Smith, M.D., Section Head for Primary Care-Kenner Region & Site Lead for St. Charles Parish Hospital at Ochsner Health System. In a market increasingly driven by value-based care, provider organizations have established accountable care organizations to provide higher quality care to consumers and to slow health care cost growth. ACOs are driving progress in the way care is provided by improving the coordination and integration of health care and the health of consumers, especially those consumers with chronic and complex conditions . . .