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Creating Accountable Care Organizations: The Extended Hospital Medical Staff

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Many current policies and approaches to performance measurement and payment reform focus on individual providers; they risk reinforcing the fragmented care and lack of coordination experienced by patients with serious illness. In this paper we show that Medicare beneficiaries receive most of their care from relatively coherent local delivery systems comprising physicians and the hospitals where they work or admit their patients. Efforts to create accountable care organizations at this level--the extended hospital medical staff--deserve consideration as a potential means of improving the quality and lowering the cost of care.

Source: Health Affairs

DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.26.1.w44

Authors: Elliott S. Fisher, Douglas O. Staiger, Julie P.W. Bynum, Daniel J. Gottlieb

Institutions: Dartmouth College, White River Junction VA Medical Center

Language: English

Topic: Healthcare Policy and Management

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Aging