White paper reveals types and locations of more than 160 ACOs or ACO-like organizations

Data-driven insights about ACOs

November 29, 2011

Leavitt Partners’ Center for ACO Intelligence, which tracks national and regional trends related to ACOs and other emerging care delivery systems, released a white paper today entitled Growth and Dispersion of Accountable Care Organizations. This is the first report of its kind regarding the types and locations of ACOs. The report provides data-driven insights into the evolution of ACOs following federal health reform and the recent announcement of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Data and analysis on the growth and national dispersion trends of more than 160 ACO or ACO-like organizations are highlighted.

Leavitt Partners’ ongoing tracking of ACOs provides valuable information to a wide variety of interested parties. The growth and dispersion of ACOs holds implications for providers, payors, vendors and the pharmacy industry.

“A quiet scramble is clearly underway,” says Andrew Croshaw, managing director at Leavitt Partners and director of the Leavitt Partners Center for ACO Intelligence. “In certain markets, competition to establish leadership is already emerging.”

Among the findings presented in the white paper are observations of ACO market concentrations, both by state and hospital referral region, as well the foundational models behind the organizations, be they hospital systems, health plans, or physician groups.

“There is a tremendous amount of activity in the ACO arena,” says Wayne Sensor, partner at Leavitt Partners and former CEO of Alegent Health Care. “Health care leadership is hungry for a deeper understanding of where ACOs are and where they are headed.”

About Leavitt Partners

Leavitt Partners is a health care intelligence business providing clients with the best available window to the future of health care. By conferring with an authoritative group of health care thought leaders known as FuturePanel™ and applying a qualitative predictive model called FutureFrame™, Leavitt Partners helps clients see the future of American health care.

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