General Question for the Week of April 15, 2019

Question:

What is a Medicare ACO?

Answer:

ACO stands for accountable care organization, which is a group of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high-quality care to their Medicare patients.

The goal of coordinated care is to ensure that patients get the right care at the right time while avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors.

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