Factors That Distinguish High-Performing Accountable Care Organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program

Health Services Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 120-137

  D'Aunno, Thomas ^a   Broffman, Lauren ^a   Sparer, Michael ^b   Kumar, Sumit R ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountable care organizations; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; physician leadership

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SKILL; STUDY DESIGN; COOPERATION; COST CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHY; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COST SAVINGS; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEADERSHIP; MEDICARE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85007297510     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12642     Document Type: Article

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