Abstract:The accountable care organization (ACO) is a delivery reform initiative that was devised to focus on care, health, and cost; quality of care within these organizations is determined by a set of defined performance measures. The primary goal of this study was to investigate how a care coordination intervention, targeted to patients assigned to the organization's ACO, affected patients' likelihood of meeting performance measures. This is a retrospective longitudinal analysis using a pre post with non-equivalent … Show more
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