title: Joint Venture Health Plans May Give ACOs a Run for Their Money.
abstract: Joint venture plans are starting to demonstrate their ability to implement clinical management and financial management reforms. A JV health plan replaces the offloading of financial risk by health plans to ill-equipped providers with an executive-level cost management committee stated jointly by the hospital and payer.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reinke
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures; D006801:Humans; D007343:Insurance Carriers; D014481:United States