Report
High-Functioning Rural Medicare ACOs — Qualitative Review
Rural Policy Brief, 2021-2, RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
02/2021
Abstract
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are typically a group of physicians and/or hospitals that form an entity to deliver high-quality health care at lower-than-predicted cost. In the Medicare Shared Savings Program (SSP), Medicare shares any expenditure savings with the ACO. Since not all ACOs deliver expected clinical quality and/or cost-savings, it is important for ACO stakeholders and policymakers to understand and support common ACO success factors likely to inform further ACO-success policy and strategy development. The RUPRI Center placed 16 rural Medicare ACOs in financial-performance and quality-performance quartiles. Four rural Medicare ACOs that performed in the third or fourth highest performance quartiles were selected for qualitative study via structured interviews. The four ACOs included Chautauqua Region ACO (western New York state), Maine Community ACO (northeastern Maine), Mercy Health ACO (southwestern Missouri and Arkansas), and North Country ACO (northern New Hampshire). Interviews inquired about governance, ACO history, operations, finances, population health, and lessons learned that might benefit other ACOs.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- High-Functioning Rural Medicare ACOs — Qualitative Review
- Creators
- Thomas VaughanKeith MuellerA Clinton MacKinney
- Resource Type
- Report
- Publisher
- RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis; Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Series
- Rural Policy Brief; 2021-2
- Number of pages
- 6 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2021
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984388759002771
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