Learn about accountable care organizations and how they empower family physicians to manage quality care for patients.

Jun 13, 2025 · AAFP Advocacy Focus: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Overview An accountable care organization is a group of health care providers — including primary care …

Family physicians can learn more about ACOs, a group of health care providers who share responsibility for the quality, cost, and coordination of care with aligned incentives for a population of ...

Accountable care organizations could be the next big thing in health care delivery. Here's what you need to know – and what you need to do – now.

Value-based care can improve health outcomes by prioritizing quality over quantity, reducing waste and enhancing preventive care.

The process that commercial and government payers use to assign patients to the physicians who are held accountable for their care is called attribution. Think of the patient lists that insurers ...

Learn more about the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and how to participate in alternative payment models designed to support primary care.

• Patient assigned to ACO if he or she received at least one primary care service from ACO-affiliated specialist physician and a plurality of primary care from ACO-affiliated specialist physicians.

An ACO is a group of doctors, hospitals, or other providers that contracts with a payer to improve health outcomes and reduce costs for a defined population (often a minimum of 5,000 patients) and ...

Learn about Advanced Alternative Payment Models (AAPMs), one of the two new payment tracks created under MACRA.