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Article: California's Physician Groups Offer Congress Model for Key Component of National Health Reform.
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Leaders from California's physicians groups are in Washington DC this week meeting with key members of Congress to offer their experience at the forefront of a key health care reform element - Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
According to leaders from the California Association of Physician Groups, making ACOs a permanent part of health reform will help control costs by transcending the old model of fee-for-service charges by doctors, and accelerating "outcome based" medicine and adoption of health information technology.
"Accountable care organizations have worked in California for two decades - from consumer protections to financial solvency ...