Medicare Accountable Care Organizations of Diverse Structures Achieve Comparable Quality and Cost Performance

Objective To examine whether an empirically derived taxonomy of Accountable Care Organizations ( ACO s) is associated with quality and spending performance among patients of ACO s in the Medicare Shared Savings Program ( MSSP ). Data Sources Three waves of the National Survey of ACO s and corresponding publicly available Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services performance data for NSACO respondents participating in the MSSP ( N = 204); SK...