Website offers a qualitative database of personal narratives to support providers and policymakers in designing policies that better reflect the lived experience, needs, and priorities of older adults.

Research review finds Medicaid accountable care organizations show promise for increasing primary care visits and reducing hospital admissions, with mixed results for quality, outcomes, and costs.

Findings from a literature review and state interviews share experiences and outcomes of implementing Medicaid accountable care organization programs.

Tool shares strategies for states to use Medicaid accountable care organization agreements to promote health equity.

Integrated care in MassHealth ACOs varies greatly across primary care practice type and is associated with greater ability to improve care quality and advance health equity.

An interdisciplinary home-based primary care program for older adults with limited mobility leads to reductions in health care utilization and costs.

Having onsite care coordinators may significantly improve the quality of patient care, while centralized coordination is associated with increased information sharing.

A program to connect Medicaid ACO enrollees with nutrition and housing-related services demonstrated early indications of effectiveness.

Community health worker interventions are effective for improving health behaviors and outcomes and reducing health care costs for people with chronic disease.

Accountable care organization leaders share perspectives on payment mechanisms used with social service organizations, challenges experienced, and the impacts of these partnerships.

Use of hospital readmission rates to measure quality may be unfair for some accountable care organizations and safety-net providers, since members with complex medical and social needs are a main driver of these rates.

Home-based palliative care program implemented within an accountable care organization created cost savings through reduced hospital admissions and increased hospice length of stay.

Systematic review demonstrates the potential of home-based primary care interventions for improving heath, cost, and patient experience outcomes for adults with multiple chronic conditions and serious disabilities.

This case study highlights an accountable care organization’s home-based primary care program for homebound older adults, with early analysis of outcomes showing reduced acute care utilization.

Provides practical steps for current or potential future Medicare accountable care organizations to transform the delivery of care, including through telehealth, home visits, and skilled nursing care.

Describes factors that support health care organizations in transitioning from volume- to value-based payment.

How home visits are used by ACOs to improve care, lower costs.

This resources describes the competencies organizations need to transition to value-based payment.

Case studies of two community hospitals show how to advance accountable care.

ACOs have lowered costs for high-need patients through care management programs focused on modifiable spending.