Four reasons that could explain ACOs' sluggish savings

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) Dartmouth Institute researchers paired data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Survey of ACOs to compare performance in the first three years of ACO contracts for three types of ACOs: integrated delivery systems, out-patient-physician-practice ACOs and coalitions of independent hospitals and practices. They identified four reasons -- two economic and two organizational -- as to why the nearly 1,000 ...