Brookings, Dartmouth Create Accountable Care Organization Toolkit
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
According to the toolkit, key features of an accountable care organization include accountability to patients and local communities, a focus on primary care, and sufficiently large patient populations to allow benchmarks, evaluations and investment in delivery system improvements.
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