Bibliography for Understanding Accountable Healthcare Organization role in the Healthcare Reform System

Understanding Accountable Healthcare Organization role in the Healthcare Reform System

Song, Z., & Lee, T. (2013). The ear of delivery of system reform begins. Journal of American Medical Association, 309(1), 35-6.

In this article the authors explain how health care reform is evolving through a three-step system; insurance (affordable are act), payment (accountable care organization), and physician reform. The elaborate on the idea that in order for ACOs to be successful it must be physicians led to generate and foster lower cost and increase quality health care. The authors offer a unique and controversial perspective in that may aid in the success of ACOs. Dr. Lee is a practicing cardiologist and a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. His past research platforms has consisted of research that looks at doctor as leaders of ACOs. Song, has a PHD in Health Policy and currently pursuing a degree in medicine at Harvard Medical School. This article is written for physicians by physicians to stimulate to reassert their position in healthcare reform. This article supports my topic and gives the reader a different perspective of conceptualizing ACOs.

Fisher, E., Shrotell, S. (2010). Accountable care organization- Accountable care for what, whom, and how. Journal of American Medical Association, 304(15), 1715-6.

In this article the authors briefly states the overall goals of ACOs, it attempts to identify whom ACOs are intended for, and give suggestion of how ACOs can obtain the stated goals in order to be successful in slowing the spending of health care growth. Dr. Fisher is a professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Insti...

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...alth care policy from Harvard Medical School and the National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts, assessed how organizations may incur financial risk and gains by joining an ACO. This revaluation was based upon the facts that ACOs uses CMS national growth factor to set forth healthcare spending limits as opposed to using local growth rate of specific geographical location. Overall, the article is confusing and hard to follow, as well as the table of statistical data provided in the examples. The article is intended for physician organization groups. This article assess ACO from a number perspective which is another was to view pro and con of a ACO but does not help the reader to understand the general inner working of ACOs. Though the articles do not support my topic it provides the reader with real data to see how much ad lost and gained in an ACO.