title: New dress on an old pig? ACOs tie payment to accountability, outcomes.
abstract: Some physicians, hospital executives, and health care policy analysts are pushing accountable care organizations (ACOs) to replace fee-for-service medicine. In an ACO, physicians and other health care professionals have financial incentives to contain costs and improve quality by coordinating care for a specific group of patients. Hospitals, physicians, and other health care professionals in the organization share the savings.
authors.affiliation: ken.ortolon@texmed.org
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ortolon
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations; D000818:Animals; D017048:Health Care Costs; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013552:Swine; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States