Question

the long- I 5. Luke believ es that the ACO model is incentivizing better approaches to care-particularly value-focused, team-based, coordinated care. How will this shift inform his management approach? What do you think is a more powerful motivator -his personal conviction or the ACO incentive structure?

This question is taken from the textbook Health Services Management: A Case Study Approach 11th edition.

Answer 1

Accountable care organization (ACOs) is a coordinated group of doctors,hospitals ,health care providers who provided high quality care to the medicare patients.This group of coordinated care help for chronically ill patients to get right time and right care and care with avoiding duplication of service and prevent medical errors and harm..It's service for lower medical cost, its care management program on emergency department visits and hospitalization based on medicare spending..Care management responsible for beneficiaries risks for future spending and substancial reduction in rates who are eligible for this..ACOs management in medicare shared saving program that do not suddenly meet the quality performance benchmarks setup this may not qualify for sharing the savings..
This traditional fee-for-service payment system make more reimbursement and incentivized physicians to order more tests and diagnostic procedures..This value based payment works by incentivizing helps more preventive care and the reduction of hospital visits and ED visits..Transforming health care can help reduce waste,improve quality and patient satisfaction and productivity..it is a powerful motivator for preventing disease and promoting illness, stronger population health improvement..new health care delivery model make benefit for payers and providers to make better population health outcomes..