title: Failed accountability?
abstract: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) were created by the Affordable Care Act to improve health care quality and lower costs in Medicare. But federal officials may have a hard time finding physicians and other health care professionals to participate in ACOs unless they make drastic changes in draft rules issued this spring. Several state and national organizations representing physicians, hospitals, medical group managers, and others complained that ACOs likely will fail if the rules are implemented as written.
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ortolon
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States