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The power of an accountable care organization (ACO) isn’t simply in the care provided or the savings realized — it’s also in stakeholders who recognize they’re part of a greater good.
Michael Camacho, President of Accountable Care for Sound Physicians, was recently reminded of that by one of his board members who also happens to be a partner in his ACO.
“He told me, ‘You guys really have our back here,’” says Camacho, who leads Sound Long-Term Care Management (SLTCM), Sound Physicians’ ACO. “He was grateful for how we help parse and apply data to reduce the risk of unnecessary readmissions for high-acuity patients.”
Rather than trying to “boil the ocean through pushing large amounts of data to providers,” Camacho says, SLTCM is focused on maximizing the opportunities around “key initiatives that will make a significant impact for the patients.”