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Accountable Care Organizations in Massachusetts: Profiles of the 2017 and 2018 HPC-Certified ACOS

Author:

Massachusetts Health Policy Commission

Year:

2019

Description:

In 2017, the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) launched a first-in-the-nation set of statewide standards for accountable care organizations (ACOs). An ACO is a group of health care providers that contracts with a payer to assume responsibility for the delivery of care to its attributed patients, and for those patients’ health outcomes. The ACO Profiles provide a snapshot of each HPC-certified ACO, using non-confidential information submitted to the HPC through ACO Certification and other public data, including data from the Massachusetts Registration of Provider Organizations (RPO) program.