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Commercial accountable care organizations (ACOs) in California are outperforming two common provider network arrangements in terms of care quality and total cost of care, according to a recent analysis by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA).
Using data from the California Regional Healthcare Cost and Quality Atlas (Atlas), a comprehensive benchmarking tool that examines data from ten health plans and Medicare, researchers found that the average care quality performance rate for commercial ACO members was 66.7 percent in 2017.
Members of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) scored a similar rate of 65.6 percent on the same eight measures, while members of preferred provider organization (PPO) networks earned a lower score of 57.4 percent.