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A new model of care encouraged by the health law – accountable care organizations – has set off a feeding frenzy among industry groups intent on getting a slice of the action, or protecting their own financial interests.
"ACOs are the latest fad," said Dan Hawkins, senior vice president for policy and research at the National Association of Community Health Centers. "I call them the hula hoop of health care because everyone wants one even if they haven't actually been defined anywhere. The whole doggone health care community is in a frenzy to own and dominate these ACOs."
For now, ACOs are just a concept – federal regulators haven't yet drawn up the rules. As envisioned by the law, ACOs would be integrated delivery systems involving doctors, hospitals and other providers whose pay would be partly based on meeting certain quality and cost targets. The goal: to improve care and slow rising costs. Medicare will start using them in 2012; many providers already are developing them for the private insurance market.
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