Executive Briefings | August 6, 2019
The Growing Push For Medicaid ACOs
Since the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), accountable care organizations have grown in popularity, with 17.2 million beneficiaries in commercial ACOs and 14.6 million in Medicare ACOs. But there is another category that, while slower in growth, has gained an increasing amount of support at the state level—Medicaid ACOs.
At the start of 2018, there were 1,000 ACOs covering 32.7 million consumers—approximately 11% of the U.S. insured population (294.6 million)—under 1,477 different contracts (see <a href="https://revcycleintelligence.com/news/after-a-slow-2017-acos . . .