Hospitals & Health Networks explores integrative health care in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Sita Ananth, MHA has co-authored ACOs and Integrative Healthcare, published online in early February for Hospitals and Health Networks, the American Hospital Association magazine. The article reads: “Integrative health care can help accountable care organizations (ACOs) reduce costs and improve health.” The authors reference a U.S. study of integrative health care that found that “clinical and cost utilization over a seven-year period showed a 60.2 percent reduction in hospital admissions, 59 percent reduction in hospital days, 62 percent decrease in outpatient surgeries and procedures, and 85 percent reduction in pharmaceutical costs when compared with conventional medicine alone.”