In the report “Analysis of Early Accountable Care Organizations Defines Patient, Structural, Cost, and Quality-of-Care Characteristics,” researchers analyzed early Medicare ACOs to collect baseline information on patient populations, quality and costs.
They found the following characteristics:
• Large, nonprofit teaching hospitals were the typical hospital participating in an ACO.
• There was little difference between participating and nonparticipating hospitals in performance on quality metrics.
• Hospital referral regions with ACOs tended to have larger populations and more Medicare spending per beneficiary.
• Patients in ACOs were more likely to be white, older than 80 years old and have higher incomes than other Medicare beneficiaries.
• ACO patients had 5.8 percent lower total costs of care ($7,694) than patients not in an ACO ($8,164) at the baseline.
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