The article describes New Jersey's Medicaid ACOs and the grassroots, multi-sectoral support that helped build these regional healthcare coalitions to meet the state's ACO certification criteria. It also discusses what is needed to sustain the coalitions.
New Jersey’s Medicaid ACO Pilot is designed to improve the care available to Medicaid beneficiaries, who too often confront barriers to primary care and coordinated care for serious illness and chronic conditions. This Report discusses the relationship between the Medicaid ACO Pilot program and the managed care orientation of New Jersey’s Medicaid system, as it will move forward under the Comprehensive Waiver granted by the federal government in 2012.
