Health Care

Accountable Care Organizations

Organizations of health care providers that agree to be accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service program who are assigned to it. Assigned means those beneficiaries for whom the professionals in the organization provide the bulk of primary care services. (www.cms.gov/OfficeofLegislation/Downloads/Accountable CareOrganization.pdf accessed 03/16/2011)

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Abstract

Organizations of health care providers that agree to be accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service program who are assigned to it. Assigned means those beneficiaries for whom the professionals in the organization provide the bulk of primary care services. (www.cms.gov/OfficeofLegislation/Downloads/Accountable CareOrganization.pdf accessed 03/16/2011)

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  • Accountable Care Organization
  • Care Organization, Accountable
  • Care Organizations, Accountable
  • Organization, Accountable Care
  • Organizations, Accountable Care

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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2012

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Accountable Care Organizations. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D060866. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D060866
  2. Accountable Care Organizations. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountable_care_organization
  3. Accountable Care Organizations. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4672756