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Can Save Money, But Can They MAKE Money?  Posted Jun 13 2013
12:26am ACOs at work. According to this Bloomberg news release
, some of  Medicare's Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are
already achieving cost savings. Mt. Sinai and Coastal Carolina
are reducing emergency room visits while Hackensack is reducing
costs.  All three institutions are using two key ingredients:
1) information technology-based risk stratification to identify
the persons at greatest risk and   2) dedicated full-time nurses
who perform telephonic and in-person outreach, coordinate care
and provide patient coaching that, in turn, is tailored to
that risk.  To the DMCB, the good news is that ACOs are using
the two approaches that define modern-day disease and population
health management . That industry's success will be Mt Sinai's,
Coastal Carolina's and Hackensack's success.  The bad news is
that the news relea