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Achieving Better Care at Lower Costs through Accountable Care Organizations

Past Event

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Medicare Shared Savings program to implement Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), coordinated networks of providers with shared responsibility for providing better care at lower costs. Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are currently working on regulations for implementing ACOs in 2012 under Medicare provisions that will help transform the payment and delivery of health care.

On February 1, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice hosted a public forum to discuss the most effective and thoughtful path forward for ACOs to achieve such transformation. Donald Berwick, CMS Administrator, gave a keynote address.

After each panel, speakers took audience questions.

Agenda

9:30 AM -- Welcome

Mark B. McClellan

Former Brookings Expert

Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University

9:40 AM -- Goals for Accountable Care

Presentation: Educating Consumers

Panel

Presentation: Moving Beyond Shared Savings

Mark B. McClellan

Former Brookings Expert

Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University

Presentation: Ensuring that Savings Reflect ACO Performance

Panel

Mark B. McClellan

Former Brookings Expert

Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University

12:30 PM -- Advancing Accountable Care Together

Nancy-Ann DeParle

Former Brookings Expert

Director - CVS Health

Director - HCA

Partner - Consonance Capital

12:50 PM -- Next Steps

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