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Accountable Care Organizations: Your Guide to Strategy, Design, and Implementation

Marc A. Bard, MD Michael E. Nugent

ISBN: 9781567934151
Softbound, 416pp, 2011
Order Code: 2179i
ACHE Management
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Book Description

Is the ACO strategy right for your organization?

Accountable Care Organizations will help you understand the ACO framework and assess your readiness to embark on an ACO strategy. This book provides the structural blueprints, management skills, and cultural tools necessary to implement a successful ACO. Practical advice is bolstered with real world examples of leading healthcare providers that are pioneers in the rapidly changing world of accountable care.

This guidebook is designed to facilitate critical conversations and decisions at all stages of the ACO development journey. Explore processes and structures and learn how to implement pilots to shape your own ACO delivery model. Each chapter includes takeaway points and tailored action steps for: (1) organizations interested in exploring the ACO concept, (2) organizations taking the first steps towards an ACO model, and (3) organizations already moving full speed ahead.

This book will help you answer these questions and more:

  • What does it take to become an ACO?
  • What steps and actions should your organization take to implement an ACO strategy?
  • How can organizational culture support your move to accountable care?
  • How can you build a business plan to support an ACO strategy?
  • What information technology is needed to implement an ACO strategy?
  • How can an merging ACO best negotiate with third-party payers?

    • What Readers Are Saying

    “The authors have done a wonderful job elucidating the complexities of the U.S. health system, or ‘ecosystem’ as they call it. Upon that background they explain the need for delivery system reforms and show how one-size does not fit all. Drawing upon their extensive experience, they introduce the possibilities and issues for developing ACOs and making them work. This book will be invaluable for healthcare leaders seeking to create, improve, or just understand how healthcare can become more accountable and offer greater value to all who use it.”

    —Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, MPH , Former Executive Vice President, The Commonwealth Fund

    “[This book] is highly relevant for all of us who are committed to sharing responsibility for making quality healthcare affordable. The authors describe the strategies, functions, and behaviors that will contribute to the success of hospitals and physicians in the era of healthcare reform.”

    —Andrew Dreyfus, President and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

    "There is no question that we need to re-examine the healthcare delivery system in our country so it is coordinated, efficient, and effective. Bard and Nugent offer a thoughtful and insightful examination of one approach, the ACO. Those organizations considering ACO development will find this book provides an in-depth road map to guide and shape their thinking."

    —Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Partners HealthCare

    “America is dealing with a broken healthcare system. It’s up to us (providers, consumers, the government) to restructure the system so we can be accountable for the totality of care. [This book] takes a hard look at what it takes to design and implement an effective accountable care organization.”

    —David L. Bernd, Chief Executive Officer, Sentara Healthcare