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WK 8.1 - Accountable Care Organizations

WK 8.1 - Accountable Care Organizations

Q What is an Accountable Care Organization (ACO)? What value might Accountable Care Organizations provide to our health delivery system? Instructions: Your initial discussion response must include references and in-text citations in APA style. (Your assigned readings must be one of your references). If your response to a classmate includes information from an outside source, it must be cited and a reference listed. However, if it your response to a classmate is fully your own thoughts and ideas, citations and a reference is not needed. Initial response of 200-250 words. Due: 11:59 PM ET Wednesday of this week Respond to two classmates (100-150 words) Due: 11:59 PM ET Sunday of this week

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Respond to two classmates (100-150 words) Due: 11:59 PM ET Sunday of this week An ACO is an organization in which there are voluntary contributions and participations done by all types of healthcare personnel as well as suppliers to ensure that there can be healthcare services of high-quality provided to patients covered under all the facilities of Medicare (Niles, 2020). The major aim of an ACO is also to ensure that every patient is provided the required healthcare services at costs as low as possible (Niles, 2020). In this way, access to healthcare does not become a problem for any of these patients. The major focus of an ACO is to provide customized services to patients for the patients to obtain coordinated type of care facilities.