{"id":1987,"date":"2016-02-16T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2016-02-16T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:04:46","slug":"hospital-takes-steps-in-aco-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Takes Steps in ACO Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an objective of\u00a0 improving the quality and value of care for patients and achieving overall cost savings, one hospital\u00a0has made a strategic decision to move into the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) realm. In and article posted on\u00a0uppermichiganssource.com, Monique Lopez describes the rationale for this move and explains the expected outcomes. <a href=\"http:\/\/uppermichiganssource.com\/news\/local\/dickinson-county-healthcare-system-adopts-accountable-care\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\u00a0\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an objective of\u00a0 improving the quality and value of care for patients and achieving overall cost savings, one hospital\u00a0has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountable-care-organizations-aco","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}