Implementing an ACO is one of the most difficult strategic transformations that a health care system can attempt. The alignment of physicians and hospitals that comes from gainsharing helps to ensure a successful ACO launch.
Using Gainsharing to Transition to an ACO at JFK Health: 6 Critical Success Factors examines one organization’s experience with how a gainsharing program helped in its transition to an ACO. The article was featured in the December 2014 issue of Accountable Care News, and is coauthored by myself and William Oser, MD, the Acting Executive Director, JFK Health ACO; Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, JFK Health (Edison, NJ).
