What type of impact might ACOs have on care providers?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. The purpose of ACOs is to reduce costs to the practice. Since the goal is to simultaneously improve health outcomes and patient experience while reducing per-capita costs, patients should also be positively impacted.
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