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MCPHS Health Maintenance Organizations & Accountable Care Organizations Discussion

 

Watch the two videos and read the article listed below:

1. The Birth of the ACO

2. Birth of the HMO

3. Payment Methods and Benefit Designs: How They Work and How They Work Together to Improve Health Care from the Urban Institute

After watching both videos, reading the assigned article, and text book chapters thus far:

  • BRIEFLY compare/contrast the concept of the HMO and ACO, specifically how providers and healthcare organizations are paid/reimbursed
  • List a few advantages/disadvantages from the provider/healthcare organization vantage point
  • List a few advantages/disadvantages from the Patient vantage point
  • Discuss anything you found shocking/surprising from either video
  • Cite sources using APA format