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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a policy brief examining the potential of accountable care organizations to remedy the health system’s ills. The brief concludes that ACOs will not provide short-term improvement, but are worth exploring for their longer-term potential.
One way to address our health system challenges may be to change who delivers much of our medical care, creating less reliance on physicians, and to redesign how providers interact with patients and are paid for care.
A Seattle-based medical practice has opted out of the insurance payment model for health care.