Accountable Care Organization Paper
Description
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients. The goal of coordinated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors.
In this 8-10 page paper, analyze the process a healthcare organization must go through to become an ACP.
This analysis should include, but not be limited to: how an organization evaluates their current readiness to become an ACO; the process of identifying organization-specific goals for achieving the three-part aim of improving care delivery, improving health, and reducing growth in costs through improvement; and the steps an organization must take to begin development of an action plan for establishing essential ACO functions. APA formatting and a minimum of 8 professional references are required.
