The potential impact of accountable care organizations with respect to cost and quality with special attention to imaging

J Am Coll Radiol. 2014 Apr;11(4):391-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2013.08.009. Epub 2013 Dec 12.

Abstract

An accountable care organization is a form of a managed care organization in which a group of networked health care providers, which may include hospitals, group practices, networks of practices, hospital-provider partnerships, or joint ventures, are accountable for the health care of a defined group of patients. Initial results of the institutions participating in CMS's Physician Group Demonstration Project did not demonstrate a substantial reduction in imaging that could be directly attributed to the accountable care organization model. However, the initial results suggest that incentive-based methodology appears to be successful for increasing compliance for measuring quality metrics.

Keywords: Accountable care organization; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; imaging; physician group demonstration project; radiology.

MeSH terms

  • Accountable Care Organizations / economics*
  • Accountable Care Organizations / standards*
  • Accountable Care Organizations / statistics & numerical data
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. / economics
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. / statistics & numerical data
  • Diagnostic Imaging / economics*
  • Diagnostic Imaging / standards*
  • Diagnostic Imaging / statistics & numerical data
  • Health Care Costs / statistics & numerical data
  • Models, Econometric
  • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / economics*
  • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / standards*
  • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / statistics & numerical data
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care / economics*
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care / standards
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care / statistics & numerical data
  • United States