The new frontier of strategic alliances in health care: New partnerships under accountable care organizations.

ABSTRACT: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and similar reforms aim to improve coordination between health care providers; however, due to the fragmented nature of the US health care system, successful coordination will hinge in large part on the ability of health care organizations to successfully partner across organizational boundaries. Little is known about new partnerships formed under the ACO model. We use mixed methods data from the National Survey of ACOs, Medicare ACO performance data and interviews with executive leaders across 31 ACOs to examine the prevalence, characteristics, and capabilities of partnership ACOs and why and how ACO partnerships form. We find that a striking percentage of ACOs - 81% - involve new partnerships between independent health care organizations. These "part

SUBMITTER: Lewis VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5607095 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature