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  • Title: The potential impact of accountable care organizations with respect to cost and quality with special attention to imaging.
    Author: Mukherji SK.
    Journal: J Am Coll Radiol; 2014 Apr; 11(4):391-6. PubMed ID: 24332427.
    Abstract:
    An accountable care organization is a form of a managed care organization in which a group of networked health care providers, which may include hospitals, group practices, networks of practices, hospital-provider partnerships, or joint ventures, are accountable for the health care of a defined group of patients. Initial results of the institutions participating in CMS's Physician Group Demonstration Project did not demonstrate a substantial reduction in imaging that could be directly attributed to the accountable care organization model. However, the initial results suggest that incentive-based methodology appears to be successful for increasing compliance for measuring quality metrics.
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