McKesson: Seven Success Factors for Accountable Care Organizations
Submitted By Charlene Ice, Created 01/04/2018 - 17:06
- Integrate pharmacists into primary care based ACOs
- Adopt and execute a formal plan to manage ACO enrollee drug costs
- ACOs can reduce medical costs without increasing drug costs
- Use of care management can reduce ACO enrollee hospitalizations and emergency room visits
- ACOs should give physicians more tools and resources to improve the quality of care to enrollees
- Reducing physician and beneficiary turnover can help ACOs reduce medical costs
- ACOs eye telemedicine and behavioral health as services to expand access and interventions
Source: McKesson Blog, December 27, 2017
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