For the last eight years, the US health care system, led by Medicare, has been going to school, learning how to do comprehensive provider payment reform. The most important courses have focused on how to improve performance for entire populations of people. Efforts to promote accountable care organizations (ACOs) in particular have attempted to use payment changes to establish a seismic shift in the function of the health care provider: from an individual who produces successful patient encounters to a team member who improves outcomes for an entire population of people.
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September 24, 2018
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