ACOs Holding Commercial Contracts Are Larger And More Efficient Than Noncommercial ACOs.

ABSTRACT: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have diverse contracting arrangements and have displayed wide variation in their performance. Using data from national surveys of 399 ACOs, we examined differences between the 228 commercial ACOs (those with commercial payer contracts) and the 171 noncommercial ACOs (those with only public contracts, such as with Medicare or Medicaid). Commercial ACOs were significantly larger and more integrated with hospitals, and had lower benchmark expenditures and higher quality scores, compared to noncommercial ACOs. Among all of the ACOs, there was low uptake of quality and efficiency activities. However, commercial ACOs reported more use of disease monitoring tools, patient satisfaction data, and quality improvement methods than did noncommercial ACOs. Few ACOs

SUBMITTER: Peiris D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5116911 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature