ACOs usually concern themselves within issues like attribution, cost of care, quality metrics and shared savings and losses.
But former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick asked the organizations to take on a much different, more fundamental issue today in a keynote talk at the virtual version National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), the main lobbying organization for the accountable care organizations.
Warning that he might be a “little abrasive” Berwick said, “I am at a point where I think we really need to stop kind of admiring this problem of inequity and of racism and do something about it. And I challenge the ACO community to take the lead here.”