Changes in Health Care Utilization During the First 2 Years of Massachusetts Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations.

ABSTRACT: On March 1, 2018, the Massachusetts Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (MassHealth) launched an ambitious accountable care organization (ACO) program that sought to integrate care across the physical, behavioral, functional, and social services continuum while holding ACOs accountable for cost and quality. The study objective was to describe changes in health care utilization among MassHealth members during the pre-ACO baseline (2015-2017) and post-implementation periods (2018 and 2019). Using MassHealth administrative data, the authors conducted a repeated cross-sectional study of MassHealth members enrolled in ACOs during 2015-2019. Rates of primary care visits, all-cause and primary-care sensitive emergency department (ED) visits, ED boarding, hospitalizations, acute unpla

SUBMITTER: Sabatino MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10698769 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature