title: Final ACO rule includes several changes favorable to hospitals.
abstract: Downside risk option is removed, helping to ease burden of startup costs. Greater focus seen on improving care after discharge, periodic following-up with patients. Core quality measures differ from those traditionally set out by CMS.
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006761:Hospitals; D016134:Organizational Policy; D014481:United States