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    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 34, Engaging Accountable Care Organizations in Urgent Care Centers
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 34, Engaging Accountable Care Organizations in Urgent Care Centers
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 34, Engaging Accountable Care Organizations in Urgent Care Centers
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    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 34, Engaging Accountable Care Organizations in Urgent Care Centers

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    The Textbook of Urgent Care Management is now offering individual chapters for sale. The full book, provides an expert business consulting guide to potential or existing urgent care clinic owners, managers & operators as well as investors. Learn how to more effectively run your immediate care or walk-in center as well as start incorporating urgent care services into your existing primary care practice. The chapters cover valuable information from industry experts on how to start, manage, and even sell your urgent care center.

    Chapter 34 includes:

    What Is an Accountable Care Organization?

    Why Should Accountable Care Organizations be Interested in Urgent Care Centers?
    - Reducing Total Costs of Care
    - Improving Accessibility of Care and Patient-Satisfaction Indicators
    - Involving Urgent Care Primary-Care Physicians

    Why Should Urgent Care Centers be Interested in Accountable Care Organizations?

    Strategic Accountable Care Organization Options for Urgent Care Centers
    - Option 1: Be a Participating Accountable Care Organization Provider
    - Option 2: Be a Good Partner
    - Option 3: Wait and See
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 15, 2014
    ISBN9781940288680
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 34, Engaging Accountable Care Organizations in Urgent Care Centers
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    John Harris

    John Harris, author of Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock, has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo, Q, The Independent, NME, Select, and New Statesmen. He lives in Hay on Wye, England.

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      Chapter 34

      Engaging Accountable Care Organizations in Urgent Care Centers

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      What Is an Accountable Care Organization?

      An accountable care organization (ACO) is an organization of health-care providers that is responsible, both clinically and financially, for the care of patients across settings, from physician offices to acute care to long-term care facilities.

      ACO contracts reward providers for improving the quality of care and lowering the total cost of care. ACOs are loosely managed, with no gatekeeper referral or preauthorization requirements.

      The major ACO program today is the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Many commercial insurers are also pursuing ACO programs to reward providers for improving care quality and lowering costs.

      MSSP ACOs are either of the following:

         Physician-only ACOs—group practices, networks of individual practices (individual practice associations), or selected federally qualified health centers and rural health centers

         Hospital–physician ACOs—either hospitals and physicians in partnership or hospitals with employed physicians

      ACO entities must

         Have a formal legal structure

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