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Health Care Quality Current Topics

The Future of Accountable Care Organizations
The final rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) received positive reactions, but what’s next? These resources from RWJF and its grantees take a look at the final rule and consider where ACOs go from here.

  • A report from the Urban Institute examines whether the ACO model will spread, whether it will save money and whether anti-trust concerns will materialize.
  • Consumer and employer groups say the real measure of success will be whether ACOs are soon widespread, providing better-coordinated, patient-centered, high-value care. Read a statement from the Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project.
  • An implementation brief from HealthReformGPS.org looks at whether the final rule will advance national goals to better integrate and reform health care delivery.
Releasing Medicare Claims Data
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon begin releasing claims data from Medicare. If done well, this release of data can help patients assess the performance of physicians and hospitals.
  • RWJF offers comments to CMS on Medicare data release.
  • The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project a group representing employers and patients offers comments to CMS.
  • An RWJF brief examines the impact of local efforts to publicly disclose data on physician performance.
  • Data in Action: The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality uses claims data from private sources to compile online reports that allow patients to compare doctors.

Health Care Quality Fast Fact

Racial and ethnic minorities suffer from worse health and receive lower-quality care than whites, regardless of where they live, their income or their health insurance coverage.
Source:  Institute of Medicine

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