New Phase of Obamacare: Next Generation Medical Care

Conway said the ACOs reduced such infections by 17 percent, and that it translates into at least 50,000 lives saved.
New Phase of Obamacare: Next Generation Medical Care
A patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., on June 26, 2012. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Mary Silver
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One medical part of the Affordable Care Act has not sparked outrage, or Supreme Court cases, or congressional efforts to repeal it. It’s an alphabet soup of medical and financial terms and acronyms, but in English, it means paying doctors and hospitals to help us get well, instead of blindly paying them for office visits and procedures. The idea is to pay for quality, not just quantity. The hope is to provide quality care at a lower cost.

The idea is to pay for quality, not just quantity.
Mary Silver
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Mary Silver writes columns, grows herbs, hikes, and admires the sky. She likes critters, and thinks the best part of being a journalist is learning new stuff all the time. She has a Masters from Emory University, serves on the board of the Georgia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and belongs to the Association of Health Care Journalists.
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