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.
The New Jersey Medicaid ACO Demonstration Program provides new opportunities to improve the delivery of healthcare services through Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which create the potential for better population health and containment of healthcare costs. This data book examines specific patterns of hospital utilization for residents of 13 low-income communities—which we refer to as potential ACO regions—to identify opportunities to improve care and reduce costs.
