ACA- Accountable Care Organizations by https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj The following students will discuss this issue for others to view: Shannon O’Brien, Janie Bumford, Jeffery Jordan, and Parisa Ehsan en-us 2017-03-22 17:59:37 UTC 2023-07-27 01:28:56 UTC hello@padlet.com Parisa Ehsan https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/163590763 With the ACA, the goal is for OT service to be delivered more effective and efficiently. The ACO is designed to promote collaborative care with incentives for health care providers across care settings to work together to treat individual patients. Essentially, the providers that participate in ACO work together to coordinate care for the patients as they move among the different practitioner's offices, hospitals, and other settings in order to eliminate the change of duplication and error. 

AOTA Analysis: Final Rule for Medicare Shared Savings Program and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). (n.d.). Retrieved March 29, 2017, from http://www.aota.org/Advocacy-Policy/Health-Care-Reform/Payment-and-Delivery-System-Reform/ACO-Final.aspx]]> 2017-03-30 02:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/163590763 Shannon OBrien https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/163735932 The symbol below represents the collaborative care Accountable Care Organizations provide. The patient is always at the center.  OT can be involved in many aspects of the patient's care through an ACO, including but not limited to: wellness, prevention, primary care, acute care, rehab, addressing safety issues, and assessing functional mobility.
Taylor. J. M. 2013. Delivering Successful Care Coordination. Healthcare Informatics. Retrieved on March 30, 2017 from: https://www.healthcare-informatics.com/article/delivering-successful-care-coordination-creating-it-foundation-accountable-care-part-three

]]> 2017-03-30 15:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/163735932 Shannon OBrien https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/163737764 An accountable care organization (ACO) is a group of health care providers and hospitals that work together in the administration of a patient’s care. By working as a group they are able to provide high quality continuous comprehensive care, lower costs, share medical information between specialties, and promote wellness. The patient ends up with a whole team of health care providers working together to make their life better. 
 
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 2015. Accountable care organizations (ACO). Retrieved on March 30, 2017 from: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/ACO/index.html?redirect=/Aco
]]> 2017-03-30 15:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/163737764 Jeffrey Jordan https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/164066201 When health care providers participate in an accountable care organization (ACO) they may then be able to participate in a Shared savings program. This is a new approach to delivering healthcare that is aimed to focus on quality of services provided. Traditionally the united states as used a fees for service approach that incentivizes unnecessary treatments that cause an unwarranted cost. In 2014 ACOs are estimated to have saved $411 million in health care costs.

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http://obamacarefacts.com/aco-accountable-care-organizations/]]> 2017-03-31 20:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/164066201 Janie Bumford https://padlet.com/smontgomery8/4qxh0sxagybj/wish/164133504 As previously mentioned by all of you, accountable care organizations (ACO’s) are groups of healthcare providers that collaborate to ensure the highest quality treatment available. Providers and pairs are incentivized to work together to improve care quality while reducing costs through efficient practices. Occupational therapists have a lot to offer and can be a big contributor to these organizations. We provide a wide range of diverse skills that can be utilized by patients with a variety of diagnoses. The AOTA notes “Occupational therapy practitioners can play an integral role in ACOs by utilizing their unique skills and qualifications: Assessments can focus on the improvement of a patient’s quality of life and include evaluations of home safety, ADL and IADLs, vision, ergonomics, driving, fall risk, swallowing, pediatric, and mental health” (2012). 

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