This Week's Challenge: The number of accountable care organizations led by a physician-hospital organization (PHO) nearly doubled over the previous year, according to a recent ACO survey by the Healthcare Intelligence Network. We wanted to see who administers accountable care organizations.

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2013 Healthcare Benchmarks: Accountable Care Organizations delivers a comprehensive set of metrics from more than 138 healthcare organizations and documents the numerous ways in which accountable care is transforming healthcare delivery, particularly in the area of care coordination, where the ACO model has had the greatest impact for this year's respondents.

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© 2014 Healthcare Performance Benchmarks by Healthcare Intelligence Network.
Editor: Patricia Surdovel, [email protected];
Publisher: Melanie Matthews, [email protected]