Tread Carefully in Setting Up ACOs, CMA CEO Writes

"There is some logic to the stampede" to set up accountable care organizations, which seek to "change the way health care is delivered and paid for," Dustin Corcoran -- CEO of the California Medical Association -- writes in a Capitol Weekly opinion piece. Corcoran writes, "There is very real danger" that policymakers and health care leaders could encounter difficulty in the "attempt to consolidate the hospital-physician marketplace," but CMA "is currently developing a set of criteria that we believe is necessary to ensure that patients accrue real benefit from ACOs and medical foundations."

• "ACOs: Danger Lurks in Health Care Reform" (Corcoran, Capitol Weekly, 9/30).