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Aligning Incentives In Accountable Care Organizations: The Role Of Medical Malpractice Reform, Laura Hermer
Aligning Incentives In Accountable Care Organizations: The Role Of Medical Malpractice Reform, Laura Hermer
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) encourages physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers to deliver better coordinated, high-quality care through the institution of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Many physicians and other providers moved quickly after the ACA was enacted to enter into arrangements that would allow them to take advantage of the MSSP and similar programs sponsored by private insurers that likely would — and did — arrive on the MSSP’s heels.
Yet despite the initial enthusiasm, it is by no means clear that ACOs will succeed, whether individually or in the greater goal of changing …