Dr. David Ballard, Chief Quality Officer and Senior Vice President at the Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, TX and Executive Director of its Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, introduces a series of articles appearing in the August 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings where he shares a 3-part interview with 3 leading health care experts, Drs Shulkin, Couch, and Haydar, who are involved with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). They discuss how and why the Medicare ACO funding options work or don’t work for their respective institutions. For ‘The Potential of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations to Transform the American Health Care Marketplace: Rhetoric and Reality‘, click here.
Transformational Potential of Medicare ACOs – Part 1
Dr. David Ballard, Chief Quality Officer and Senior Vice President at the Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, TX and Executive Director of its Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, introduces a series of articles appearing in the August 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings where he shares a 3-part interview with 3 leading health care experts, Drs Shulkin, Couch, and Haydar, who are involved with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). They discuss how and why the Medicare ACO funding options work or don’t work for their respective institutions. For ‘The Potential of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations to Transform the American Health Care Marketplace: Rhetoric and Reality‘, click here.