Creating an ACO
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Select your role as the CEO of a
Hospital
Physician group
Health plan
Now write a double-spaced memo to your Board of Directors outlining how your organization should create an ACO. Identify challenges and opportunities inherent in creating this structure.
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Solution creates an ACO in 467 words.
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The first and most important step of creating an ACO entails defining the ACO in regard to how the healthcare organization will design a network that has local providers capable of managing the full continuum and spectrum of care for all patients within the healthcare organization's provider network. This requires a foundation to be set for the healthcare organization wherein the Board of Directors is provided a demonstration through the use of a Medicare physician group practice demonstration in which physician groups are incented to reduce costs per Medicare beneficiary by sharing a bonus payment for meeting certain performance goals. This will be instrumental in creating some of the ACO rules that will have to be developed once the ACO program is implemented.
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- BS, Sam Houston State University, 1903 University Avenue, Huntsville, Tx 77340
- MS, Prairie View A&M University
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