Accountable Care Organizations, Explained
FROM URL: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/18/132937232/accountable-care-organizations-explained Accountable Care Organizations, Explained by JENNY GOLD text size A A A January 18, 2011 As the House begins debate today on an effort to repeal the health care law, we took a closer look at one of the provisions of the law that health care providers are talking about the most — accountable care organizations. ACOs take up only seven pages of the massive new health law but the idea has providers buzzing. ACOs are a...
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Facing abdominal surgery for colon and uterine cancer, Kathleen Rivard listened last Thursday as Stuart Bussell, her surgeon at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, laid out the odds: a 1% risk of death, an 18% risk of a complication like an infection at the surgical incision site, and an 8% chance of a more serious complication like cardiac arrest. (FROM: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703422904575039110166900210.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth ) It wasn’t just an educated guess: Dr....
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