Admission Rates of Accountable Care Organizations
For the third part of my research, I took a look at the admission rates of individual hospitals. I specifically looked at established ACO organizations and I compared them to well known non – ACOs. Hospital admission rates have been increasing over the past decade and will most likely continue to increase as the population gets older and thus becomes sicker.
Admission Rates
Accountable Care Organization – Admission Rates
Beth Israel Deaconess – 37,946
Brigham and Women’s Hospital – 45,995
Dartmouth – Hitchcock / Cigna- 19,639
Doctors Medical Center / Blue Cross Blue Shield – 20,343
Hoag Hospital / Blue Cross Blue Shield- 28,827
Methodist Dallas Medical Center / Texas Health Resources – 17,982
Montefiore Medical Center- 85,561
Norton Hospital / Humana – 17,530
St. Joseph’s Hospital (California) / Blue Cross Blue Shield – 21,254
Total Admissions – 295,077
Non Accountable Care Organization – Admission Rates
Centennial Medical Center (HCA) – 23,776
Emory University Hospital – 25,546
Gateway Medical Center (CHS) – 11,908
Massachusetts General Hospital -47,243
Ochsner Medical Center- 33,367
Tulane Medical Center (HCA) – 13,698
University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital – 45,667
University of Kentucky Hospital – 24,672
Vanderbilt University Medical Center – 48,972
Total Admissions – 274,849
Admission Rates of Accountable Care Organizations are high
Accountable Care Organizations have a much higher admission rate than non accountable care organizations (ACOs). ACOs had a total of 295,077 admissions while Non-ACOs only had 274,849 admissions. ACOs were designed to reduce admissions and apparently, that is not happening. Admissions actually increase under ACOs (according to CMS). More research is clearly needed to understand why this is occurring. For more information on hospital admission rates, read the annual report of the individual hospitals listed above. For complete results of my research, please view post “Accountable Care Organizations Are Failing.”
