Berwick Challenges ACOs to Take on Inequity, Racism

ACOs usually concern themselves within issues like attribution, cost of care, quality metrics and shared savings and losses.

But former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick asked the organizations to take on a much different, more fundamental issue today in a keynote talk at the virtual version National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), the main lobbying organization for the accountable care organizations.

Warning that he might be a “little abrasive” Berwick said, “I am at a point where I think we really need to stop kind of admiring this problem of inequity and of racism and do something about it. And I challenge the ACO community to take the lead here.”

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