title: Doctors on deck. ACOs led by doctors seek to manage costs, quality and hospital relationships.
abstract: Most of the first crop of ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program are owned and operated by physicians without formal participation of a hospital in the efforts to improve quality and curb costs. "There were some people who feared that the only entities that would participate would be hospital-dominated systems," says Jonathan Blum, director of the Center for Medicare Management at the CMS, left. "That has not happened".
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations / Q000191:economics; D003363:Cost Control; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States