Drs Barnett and McWilliams Discuss Whether Specialty Care Leakage Matters for ACOs
b'Accountable care organizations are incentivized to reduce spending and improve quality of care. One way they have tried to do achieve these goals is by establishing control over a patient\\u2019s full continuum of care by minimizing the care patients receive from other providers outside of the ACO, including specialists.\\n\\nMichael Barnett, MD, and J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, have a paper in the May issue of The American Journal of Managed Care\\xae on leakage of specialty care among ACOs and the changes in specialty care leakage and use associated with the Medicare Shared Savings Program.\\n\\nRead the paper: http://www.ajmc.com/journals/issue/2018/2018-vol24-n5/changes-in-specialty-care-use-and-leakage-in-medicare-accountable-care-organizations'