Accountable Care Organizations The Case Is Strong But The Jury Is Out
Session Number T5  Session Level  I

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Don Seymour
President
Don Seymour & Associates
Winchester, MA

Not just demonstration projects, ACO's are baked into healthcare reform legislation on the premise that integrated care can improve quality while decreasing costs. The case was based largely on the Physician Group Practice Demonstration Project which primarily focused on a few, highly organized providers: Kaiser, Geisinger, Henry Ford and others. The healthcare landscape of the past 20 years is littered with the detritus of failed attempts to integrate providers. While greater integration will be in everyone's future; successful organizations will have to clear operational, financial, IT, cultural and legal hurdles.