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The accountable care organization, or ACO, has become a cornerstone of healthcare delivery system and payment reform by raising the bar on healthcare quality and reducing unnecessary costs. There are now more than 700 ACOs in existence today, by a 2017 SK&A estimate.
2017 Healthcare Benchmarks: Accountable Care Organizations, HIN's fourth compendium of metrics on ACOs, captures ACO operation in today's value- and quality-focused healthcare environment.
This 50-page report, now in its fourth edition, delivers actionable data from healthcare companies who completed HIN's fourth comprehensive ACO assessment in May 2017.
Download the executive summary of 2017 Healthcare Benchmarks: Accountable Care Organizations.
New Metrics in the 2017 Edition:
- Participation (current and anticipated) in emerging ACO models, including the CMS ACO Investment Model, Comprehensive ESRD Care Model, Accountable Health Communities, Medicare ACO Track 1+ Model, Medicaid-Medicare ACO, and more;
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Inclusion of behavioral health providers in ACOs;
- Prevalence of ACOs with 100,000 members or more;
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Utilization of data analytics by ACOs;
- Provision within ACOs for medication management, Medicare Chronic Care Management, and social determinants of health screenings;
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Predictions on CMS proactive assignment of Medicare beneficiaries to physicians' ACO panels;
- The complete August 2017 Accountable Care Organizations survey tool.
Standard ACO Metrics Set:
As HIN benchmarks readers and members have come to expect, 2017 Healthcare Benchmarks: Accountable Care Organizations continues to document the ways in which accountable care is transforming healthcare delivery.
In this all-new resource, 2017 Healthcare Benchmarks: Accountable Care Organizations provides sector-specific qualitative data in the following areas:
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Current and planned ACOs;
- Numbers of physicians participating in ACOs;
- Types of providers participating in ACOs;
- Principal ACO administrators;
- Participation by ACO model (Medicare Shared Savings Program or MSSP, Pioneer ACO, etc.)
- Populations covered by current ACOs;
- Numbers of lives covered by current ACOs;
- Time required for ACO development;
- ACO program components, including the use of electronic health records (EHRs), patient portals, evidence-based care, and other elements;
- Reimbursement models in use in ACOs;
- Metrics to evaluate ACO success;
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Preferred ACO quality, efficiency and satisfaction measure sets;
- ROI from ACOs;
- Impact of ACO model on patient and provider satisfaction, care coordination, ER and hospital utilization, population health, healthcare spend and other key indicators;
- Early successes from ACOs;
- Greatest challenges associated with ACO creation;
And much more.
These metrics are presented in more than 60 easy-to-follow graphs and tables.
Download the executive summary of 2017 Healthcare Benchmarks: Accountable Care Organizations.
The 50-page 2017 Healthcare Benchmarks: Accountable Care Organizations is part of the HIN Healthcare Benchmarking series, which provides continuous qualitative data on industry trends to empower healthcare companies to assess strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to improve by comparing organizational performance to reported metrics. |
