Shelto: Three Letters That Mean A Lot: Aco

Audrey Shelto/Guest Columnist, Winchester Star: Opinion
Thu, 03/15/2018 - 12:29pm

Government has created countless acronyms to abbreviate agencies, programs and projects over the years, many of them familiar even if their meaning isn’t always obvious: FBI, HHS, MBTA, NASA, SNAP, TSA, WPA. There is, however, a relatively new abbreviation that you may not have heard of yet: ACO, which stands for Accountable Care Organization.ACOs are worth understanding and paying attention to, as they will reshape the way many of us get health care.ACOs are a new model [...]

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