MCPHS Health Maintenance Organizations & Accountable Care Organizations Discussion
Watch the two videos and read the article listed below:
1. The Birth of the ACO
2. Birth of the HMO
3. Payment Methods and Benefit Designs: How They Work and How They Work Together to Improve Health Care from the Urban Institute
After watching both videos, reading the assigned article, and text book chapters thus far:
- BRIEFLY compare/contrast the concept of the HMO and ACO, specifically how providers and healthcare organizations are paid/reimbursed
- List a few advantages/disadvantages from the provider/healthcare organization vantage point
- List a few advantages/disadvantages from the Patient vantage point
- Discuss anything you found shocking/surprising from either video
- Cite sources using APA format
