Goal is not to prevent medical errors or give the patient better care; the goal is to deny care, procedures, treatments, surgeries, drugs to the chronically ill
My 81-year-old mom received a letter from her doctor, four days before the Affordable Care Act takes effect. It is a two-page questionnaire titled Personal Health Assessment (PHA) from the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) that her doctor chose to voluntarily participate in, thus enrolling all his patients onto this LLC (Limited Liability Company), a mixture of partnership and corporation. How was the group formed and why?
