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Accountable Care Organization
Accountable Care Organization
Ralph Edwards
Grand Canyon University
Operations in Risk Management in Health Care
HCA-460
Dr. Smith
March 24, 2013

ACO
Even although, the cost of the health care system and the care it offers my not allow the national debt to decline to a level that will or would enhance the economy forward the cost of running a system that is backed by the government is too costly, and it will not help the deficit. , the legal responsibility of the organization is that every patron should have the same treatment for the same ailment. There are no predetermined dispositions; everyone is eligible as a government-backed facility. The funds are to assure those who have no insurance are covered. The accountable care organization needs to sustain a system of health care to the elderly and financially handicap; no one turned away from health care under this system of care. Including but not limited to the handicap and mentally disturbed and during the implementation of the ACA for the elderly, the system allowed all who need care to continue to have health care. All who live in America have the right and the ability to use the systems health care services for their benefit.
The legal responsibility of the ACA has shown itself to be of value to all who depend on this system of care. What is the organization's legal responsibility? the legal responsibility of the organization is that every patron should have the same treatment for the same ailment. The ACO answerable to a third party payer and the patient for the appropriateness, quality and proficiency of care delivered. The Centers of Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), and the ACO is “health care providers of an organization which approves accountable services of quality, overall care, and quality of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled by the traditional fee-for-service program that are assigned to it.” Medicare (2010).
The cost of running a system that backed by government funds is too



References: "Medicare " Accountable Care Organizations" Shared Savings Program - New Section 1899 of Title XVIII, Preliminary Questions & Answers". Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Retrieved January 10, 2010 FTC and the Department of Justice. (2011). "Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations Participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program." Final Policy Statement, 1-18 American Hospital Association. (2011). "The Work Ahead: Activities and Costs to Develop an Accountable Care Organization." American Hospital Association, 1-17. McClellan, Mark, et al. A National Strategy to put Accountable Care into Practice. Health Affairs. 29(5). 2010. 982-990. Jaimy Lee ( June, 2011) AdvaMed presses for oversight on ACOs | Modern Healthcare http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20110608/NEWS/306089961#ixzz2OtSa2rUw The United States Department of Justice. (2011). Department of justice/federal trade commission issue final statement of antitrust policy enforcement regarding accountable care organizations. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/October/11-at-1384.html

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