Posted on Sunday, January 19, 2020 11:51 PM
According to new research published in Health Affairs, accountable care organizations (ACOs) top priorities are prevention of hospitalization, readmissions and emergency department visits. Hospices who market themselves ACOs should keep this in mind when dealing with those organizations.
“Among the key issues that many ACOs are very focused on are metrics like emergency department visits, inpatient hospitalizations, readmissions, and that’s where the thinking is given the focus of [ACO] programs,” said Robert Saunders, research director for payment and delivery reform at Duke University’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, and co-author of the new Health Affairs study. “Hospice and palliative care providers may need to think about this and articulate how their programs are going to affect those particular metrics, since that’s where a lot of the energy for ACOs is right now.”
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