RT Journal
A1 Song Z, Lee TH
T1 THe era of delivery system reform begins
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD January 2
VO 309
IS 1
SP 35
OP 36
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.96870
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.96870
AB 
Hospitals, health care centers, and physicians in turn are consolidating into accountable care organizations (ACOs) to address these new payment contracts, which reward lower spending and higher quality. In July, 89 new ACOs were launched in Medicare. Combined with 59 Medicare ACOs started in January, these organizations bring more than 130 000 physicians and 2.2 million beneficiaries into an emerging model of organization-based health care.1 Global budget contracts from private insurers are doing the same for millions more working-age adults, their families, and their physicians.2