Blog Entry
Maintaining Progress Toward Accountable Care And Payment Reform During A Pandemic, Part 1: Utilization And Financial Impact
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Duke-Margolis authors found that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a significant negative financial impact on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) due to changes in utilization and expenditures but ACOs must be stabilized due to their ability to respond to pandemics. The first of a two-part series, the blog examines the financial impacts of COVID-19 on the nation’s largest payment reform program and potential policy implications.
Duke-Margolis Authors
William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, Health Care Transformation for Social Needs and Health Equity
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, MPAff
Assistant Research Director
Robert Saunders, PhD
Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Executive Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
