ACO Materials

Reports

Transitioning to Accountable Care: Implications for Healthcare Communicators, Survey Results, November 2012
IQL 2010: AMGA National Summit on ACOs
Meeting Summary ACO Development Collaborative, October 1-2, 2010
Meeting Summary ACO Implementation Collaborative, January 26-28, 2011
Meeting Summary ACO Collaboratives: Proposed Regulations Review, May 2, 2011
Meeting Summary Combined ACO Collaboratives, July 13-14, 2011
Meeting Summary Accountable Care Collaborative, June 13-14, 2012
Case Study: ACOs and Population Health Management (Phytel, Inc.)

Articles

The Accountable Care Organization: Whatever Its Growing Pains, The Concept Is Too Vitally Important To Fail
Francis J. Crosson
Health Affairs, July 6, 2011

Accountable Care Organizations and Market Power Issues
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), October 2010
This paper does not necessarily represent the views of AMGA.

Accountable Care Organizations. Under the health reform law, Medicare will be able to contract with these to provide care to enrollees. What are they and how will they work?
Mark Merlis
Health Affairs, July 27, 2010

Can Accountable Care Organizations Improve the Value of Health Care by Solving the Cost and Quality Quandaries?
Kelly Devers and Robert Berenson
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Urban Institute, October 2009

Creating Accountable Care Organizations. The Extended Hospital Medical Staff
Elliot S. Fisher, Douglas O. Staiger, Julie P.W. Bynum, and Daniel J. Gottlieb
Health Affairs, December 5, 2006

How the Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation Should Test Accountable Care Organizations
Stephen M. Shortell, Lawrence P. Casalino, and Elliot S. Fisher
Health Affairs, July 2010

How to Create Accountable Care Organizations
Harold D. Miller
Center for Healthcare quality and Payment Reform, September 2009

A National Strategy to Put Accountable Care Into Practice
Mark McClellan, Aaron N. McKethan, Julie L. Lewis, Joachim Roski, Elliot Fisher
Health Affairs, May 2010

Nuts and Bolts of ACO Financial and Operational Success: Calculating and Managing to Acturial Utilization Targets
Kate Fitch, RN, MEd, Catherine Murphy-Barron, FSA, MAAA, David Mirkin, MD
Milliman Healthcare Reform Briefing Paper, July 2010

Primary Care and Accountable Care – Two Essentials Elements of Delivery-System Reform
Diane R. Rittenhouse, MD, MPH, Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, MPH, MBA, and Elliot S. Fisher, MD, MPH
The New England Journal of Medicine, December 10, 2009

Reforming Provider Payment. Moving Toward Accountability for Quality and Value
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings/ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice,
Issue Brief March 2009

Which Healthcare Payment System is Best?
Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform

Presentations

Click on the links below to access presentations from past AMGA meetings on ACOs.

Past Regional Meetings on ACOs
2010 Meeting Series: Creating High-Performing Care Organizations
Regional Meetings: Journey to an Accountable Care Organization

California Regional Meeting
April 22-23, 2010
Hosted by The Permanente Federation, Oakland, CA
Supported by Abbott Laboratories and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Southern Regional Meeting - North Carolina
April 22-23, 2010
Hosted by Cornerstone Healthcare, High Point, NC
Supported by Abbott Laboratories and Phytel

Midwest Regional Meeting
May 6-7, 2010
Hosted by the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Supported by Abbott Laboratories and Sanofi Aventis

Southern Regional Meeting - Texas
May 13-14, 2010
Hosted by Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Houston, TX
Supported by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and CodeRyte, Inc.

Northwest Regional Meeting
June 4, 2010
Hosted by Group Health Permanente, Seattle, WA
Supported by Novo Nordisk

Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting
June 17-18, 2010
Hosted by Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT
Supported by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and CodeRyte, Inc.

Northeast Regional Meeting
June 24-25, 2010
Hosted by Summit Medical Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ
Supported by Abbott Laboratories and Phytel