Managed Care Cast

Accountable care organizations are incentivized to reduce spending and improve quality of care. One way they have tried to do achieve these goals is by establishing control over a patient’s full continuum of care by minimizing the care patients receive from other providers outside of the ACO, including specialists. Michael Barnett, MD, and J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, have a paper in the May issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® on leakage of specialty care among ACOs and the changes in specialty care leakage and use associated with the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Read the paper: http://www.ajmc.com/journals/issue/2018/2018-vol24-n5/changes-in-specialty-care-use-and-leakage-in-medicare-accountable-care-organizations