Physicians and healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to do more with less…less time, less money. However, this isn’t an industry in which “sacrificing quality” to stay on “budget or schedule” is an option. The stakes are simply too high.

What is Accountable Care?

Accountable care is one example of the ways in which healthcare providers are rising to the occasion; in short, accountable care organizations are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients. For many Medicare patients, this sounds like a dream come true.