ASSIGNMENT : Health Policy and Evaluation HCM-590-MBOL1

Create a Policy Memo that explains and assesses the advantages and challenges of one of the three emerging organizational structures and payment reform approaches featured in this module (accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes, bundled payment).

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Health Policy and Evaluation HCM-590-MBOL1             The Policy Memo focuses on the pros and limitations of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), one of the emerging organizational structures featured in the module. ACOs refers to a group of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare practitioners such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and technicians who voluntarily collaborate to offer patient-centered and high-quality care to the patients they serve under the Medicare programs (Diana et al., 2019). In the United States, ACOs are established from groups of coordinated physicians and other health care practitioners. Primarily, these groups of medical practitioners come together and adopt alternative models of payment, often, capitation (Ortiz et al., 2013). ACOs are accountable to both the patients, as primary stakeholders, and third party payers for the health care quality, efficiency, and…