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With the April 2012 launch date for the CMS Shared Savings Program on the horizon, early adopters of the accountable care organization (ACO) model aren't waiting to benefit from ACO's built-in business opportunities. Advises Jeffrey Ruggiero, Esq., legal counsel to the Queens County Medical Society ACO: "Physicians really need to be proactive about ACOs; they cant afford to sit on the fence and wait because at the point that theres absolute clarity, its probably too late to do anything, and options are evaporating quickly."
2011 Benchmarks in Accountable Care Organizations: Metrics from Early ACO Adopters delivers actionable data from 228 healthcare companies that responded to HIN's February 2011 ACO readiness assessment. The result? A comprehensive snapshot of ACO awareness, participation, administration, targeted populations, payment models and much more from healthcare companies already immersed in the ACO architecture.
PLUS, in an interview with HIN's Melanie Matthews, Greg Mertz, senior project director for Healthcare Strategy Group, suggests ways that providers and payors can profit from the ACO model without waiting for CMS's final rule. He describes the opportunities available on the commercial side, what healthcare organizations can learn from ACOs already in operation, the types of physicians to invite into the ACO, whether EHRs are a requirement of a successful ACOs, what he sees as the most challenging aspect of ACO development, and much more inciteful commentary.
Download the executive summary of "2011 Benchmarks in Accountable Care Organizations: Metrics from Early ACO Adopters."
This 60-page resource provides market research on current and planned accountable care organizations as well as details on ACO composition and metrics that will be used by ACO early adopters to measure success, quality, efficiency and satisfaction.
This exclusive report analyzes the responses of 228 healthcare organizations to HIN's February 2011 Industry Survey on Accountable Care Organizations, presenting the data in more than 60 easy-to-follow graphs and tables.
This report provides detailed sector-specific data on the following aspects of ACOs:
- Awareness of the accountable care organization model;
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Current and planned ACOs;
- Expected participation in CMS Shared Savings program (ACO for Medicare beneficiaries);
- Numbers of physicians participating in ACOs;
- Types of providers participating in ACOs;
- Principal ACO administrators;
- Populations covered by current ACOs;
- Numbers of lives covered by current ACOs;
- Anticipated time needed to create the ACO:
- Use of electronic health records in existing ACOs;
- Top three reimbursement models in use in ACOs;
- Metrics to evaluate ACO success, quality, efficiency and satisfaction;
- Greatest challenges associated with an ACO launch and final comments on the ACO adoption process;
- The complete February 2011 Accountable Care Organizations survey tool;
and much more.
Download the executive summary of "2011 Benchmarks in Accountable Care Organizations: Metrics from Early ACO Adopters."
The 60-page 2011 Benchmarks in Accountable Care Organizations is part of the HIN Healthcare Benchmarking series, which provides continuous qualitative data on industry trends to empower healthcare companies to assess strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to improve by comparing organizational performance to reported metrics.
