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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: BEST OF: Matthew Trombley on Why Many Providers Run From Downside Risk In ACOs
Description: This episode was originally released on January 4, 2022.The Medicare program has placed considerable emphasis on creating accountable care organizations (ACOs), which are groups of health care providers that together take responsibility for providing necessary care and can reap financial rewards if they do so at lower than projected costs.While the American Hospital Association reports that 56 percent of community hospitals participate in an ACO, ACOs have developed more slowly in rural than in urban areas.Observing that not all health care providers can afford the infrastructure cost necessary to make an ACO work...