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With CMS announcing this summer’s launch of 89 new ACOS under the Medicare Shared Savings Program, there are well over 300 private and public ACOs now operating in the United States (see the Brookings-Dartmouth Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Learning Network map of private ACOs). Learn more about ACOs.
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WATCH THIS: Elliott Fisher, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Population Health, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

ACO thought leader Dr. Fisher discusses how the shift to coordinated care is transforming the payer-provider relationship.

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Learning from AdvocateCare: How Pathologists are Bolstering Growth and Savings in a Commercial ACO

Michael Weldon-Linne, MD, FCAPWith their “laser focus” on quality and containing costs, AdvocateCare’s pathologists are helping both the system’s private and public ACO achieve its goals, according to Michael Weldon-Linne, MD, FCAP, Chairman, Department of Pathology at the system’s Illinois Masonic Medical Center (IMMC).
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Interested in joining the CAP-ACO network? CAP members who work in a facility that is currently—or will be—part of an ACO are encouraged to join the network.

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