A taxonomy of accountable care organizations for policy and practice.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop an exploratory taxonomy of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to describe and understand early ACO development and to provide a basis for technical assistance and future evaluation of performance.

Data sources/study setting

Data from the National Survey of Accountable Care Organizations, fielded between October 2012 and May 2013, of 173 Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payer ACOs.

Study design

Drawing on resource dependence and institutional theory, we develop measures of eight attributes of ACOs such as size, scope of services offered, and the use of performance accountability mechanisms. Data are analyzed using a two-step cluster analysis approach that accounts for both continuous and categorical data.

Principal findings

We identifie

SUBMITTER: Shortell SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4254130 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature