Brookings, Dartmouth Create Accountable Care Organization Toolkit

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - February  2, 2011

As the health care sector awaits guidance from CMS on the accountable care organization program called for under the health reform law, policy groups within The Brookings Institution and Dartmouth Medical School have created a toolkit to help people get started.

Brookings, Dartmouth Create Accountable Care Organization Toolkit

Article preview from "The Gray Sheet" - February  2, 2011

As the health care sector awaits guidance from CMS on the accountable care organization program called for under the health reform law, policy groups within The Brookings Institution and Dartmouth Medical School have created a toolkit to help people get started.

Available online at ¹ http://www.acolearningnetwork.org/, the toolkit was introduced Feb. 1 at a Washington, D.C., conference, "Achieving Better Care at Lower Costs through Accountable Care Organizations," sponsored by the Engleberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

According to the sponsors, the report "provides a path forward for the implementation of ACOs across the country" that is specific enough to offer concrete steps yet broad enough to encourage participation by a diverse range of provider groups.

"There is no one organizational makeup that will determine a successful ACO," write co-authors Mark McClellan, director of the Engleberg Center for Health Care Reform, and Elliott Fisher, director of the Center for Population Health at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

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