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"Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which have been around for several years, are an attempt to provide quality medical care for less money. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMA) define an ACO as “an organization of health care practitioners that agrees to be accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service program who are assigned to it.”\nAn organization is made up of primary care physicians, specialists, home health care providers, and hospitals. They communicate with each other – in partnership with you – to make your healthcare decisions.\nAn ACO will prevent expensive duplication of tests, which can occur if you are seeing different doctors, and your care is not coordinated among them. Another benefit: you will not have to fill out a patient information form every time you go to a new participating caregiver. Your information will be stored electronically by the ACO.\nUnder the CHRONIC (Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care) Act signed recently, a new program has been established that allows some ACOs to incentivize patients who come in for primary appointments but paying them up to $20 per visit.\n........"
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