Weaving Whole-Person Health Throughout An Accountable Care Framework: The Social ACO

As currently structured, most accountable care organizations (ACOs) contain a serious flaw — the vast majority of ACO financing structures, including most of those promoted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and state Medicaid programs, carve out the largest drivers of health: social, environmental, and community factors.

ACO News is a feature of the Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Resource Center, an online collection of tools designed to help Medicaid agencies develop and launch accountable care organizations.