Align patient incentives with your goals in move to ACOs

As physician care moves steadily toward accountable care, revenue enhancement will depend on hitting markers of quality and efficiency. But that means your income is dependent on your patients being good patients who do what you tell them. Actually achieving that outcome will require a different mind-set and a change in how you run your practice, says Jordan Battani, a principal researcher with CSC, a technology consulting company based in Falls Church, VA.