Lost in the nearly two-year debate over whether Utah should expand its Medicaid program has been the successful rollout of Utah’s Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The Medicaid ACOs are worth another look. In 2011, in an ambitious effort to control skyrocketing Medicaid costs while improving health care outcomes, the Utah Legislature, working closely with Medicaid advocates, hospitals, doctors and other health care providers, unanimously passed SB180, “Medicaid Reform.” This legislation instructed the Utah Department of…
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