title: The potential impact of accountable care organizations with respect to cost and quality with special attention to imaging.
abstract: An accountable care organization is a form of a managed care organization in which a group of networked health care providers, which may include hospitals, group practices, networks of practices, hospital-provider partnerships, or joint ventures, are accountable for the health care of a defined group of patients. Initial results of the institutions participating in CMS's Physician Group Demonstration Project did not demonstrate a substantial reduction in imaging that could be directly attributed to the accountable care organization model. However, the initial results suggest that incentive-based methodology appears to be successful for increasing compliance for measuring quality metrics.
authors: Department of Radiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Electronic address: mukherji@rad.msu.edu.
authors: Suresh K
authors: SK
authors: Mukherji
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017059:Models, Econometric; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States
keywords: Accountable care organization; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; imaging; physician group demonstration project; radiology