Managed Care Contracting & Reimbursement Advisor, March 2013
Physicians and healthcare providers have formed 106 new accountable care organizations (ACO), bringing the nationwide number of Medicare beneficiaries included in ACOs to about 4 million, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced recently. This growth means physicians are finding the proposed models appealing and potentially profitable, says one observer.
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