Accountable Care Organizations in 2016: Growth and Geographic Dispersion

838 active Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) were identified in the United States as of January 2016. The data was compiled by Leavitt Partners in partnership with the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative. It tracks growth variation across public and private health insurance programs and geographic regions, including rural areas.

Use Cases

• Mapping the geographic dispersion of ACOs based on the described growth in population centers and rural areas.
• Analyzing growth trends in public versus private health insurance programs as mentioned in the description.
• Studying the penetration of accountable care models across different regions of the United States.

Strengths

• Provides a specific count of 838 active ACOs as of a known date (January 2016).
• Captures variation across key dimensions: geography (urban/rural) and payer type (public/private).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying organizational data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Leavitt Partners and the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative

Collection Method

Identified and compiled a list of active organizations.

Time Range

Snapshot as of January 2016

Geography

United States