Characteristics of Rural Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) - A Survey of Medicare ACOs With Rural Presence

Date
05/2015
Description

In this policy brief, we present the findings of a survey of 27 rural ACOs focusing on characteristics important to their formation and operation. We find that a majority of responding ACOs were formed from pre-existing integrated delivery systems and had physician and hospital participants with prior risk-sharing and quality-based payment experience. In addition, physician groups played a leading role in the formation and management of the ACOs.

Center
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Authors
Abiodun Salako, Xi Zhu, Clinton MacKinney, Fred Ullrich, Keith Mueller