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WHAT IS AN ACO AND A PCMH?

An ACO is a group of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their patients. The goal is to ensure patients get the right care at the right time while avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors.

Accountable Care

Organization

A health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient’s family. Care is facilitated by registries, IT, HIE, and other means to ensure that patients get care when and where they need and want it.

Patient Centered Medical Home

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SO WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

A PCMH is a smaller version of the ACO – a primary

physician strives to provide patients with better

coordination of care, access to services, prevention, quality and safety within

the practice

An ACO is larger and can serve a larger population of people– it looks to have multiple primary care providers and practices work together. In essence, an

ACO is like a PCMH “neighborhood.”

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