January special report: Accountable care organizations

There’s no doubt about it—the healthcare industry needs a makeover. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other leaders in the healthcare realm have developed a handful of models that could hold some promise for reducing healthcare costs and improving the quality of healthcare for all Americans. Such models include accountable care organizations (ACOs), medical homes, and value-based purchasing.
Not one of these models holds the golden ticket to healthcare reform; rather, the healthcare industry must experiment with and deploy several models to address all the problems that plague the current healthcare climate.

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