Accountable Care Organization Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Accountable Care Organization Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Accountable Care Organization related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Accountable Care Organization specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Accountable Care Organization Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Accountable Care Organization improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. Is the only way for an ACO to operate by becoming a provider/payer financial viability is assured by having the liability for care as well as the insurance component in the same organization?
   
   

2. What is the governance structure of the ACO as the CMS contracting organization and how does that structure affect the sponsors commitments for capital and compensation related matters?
   
   

3. How would ACO leadership or other ACO participants be informed if an emergency overwhelmed the ability of one or more ACO participants to continue to provide healthcare services?
   
   

4. How well prepared do you feel your organization is to use patient registries and key process analysis as important elements in prioritization of improvement initiatives?
   
   

5. Does your ACO or any of your ACO participants, under the same or different name currently participate in any medicare initiative involving a shared savings arrangement?
   
   

6. Does the ACO or any of the ACO participants, under the same or different name, currently participate in any medicare initiative involving a shared savings arrangement?
   
   

7. How are networks of physician practices, particularly small physician practices in rural areas with limited resources, will be able to quality and function as ACOs?
   
   

8. How well prepared do you feel your organization is to demonstrate with dashboards and outcomes reports your proficiency in quality and safety to third party payers?
   
   

9. Has each ACO participant and each ACO provider/supplier agreed to demonstrate a meaningful commitment to the mission of the ACO to ensure the ACOs likely success?
   
   

10. What remedial processes and penalties will be in place to apply if an ACO provider/supplier fails to comply with or fails to implement the desired ACO processes?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Accountable Care Organization book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Accountable Care Organization self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Accountable Care Organization Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Accountable Care Organization areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Accountable Care Organization Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Accountable Care Organization projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Accountable Care Organization Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Accountable Care Organization project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Are all complaints of late or incorrect payment sent to a person independent of the already stated having cash disbursement responsibilities?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Matrix: Do the requirements require the creation of new algorithms?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Are vendor contract reports, reviews and visits conducted periodically?
   
   

4. Team Performance Assessment: How does Accountable Care Organization project termination impact Accountable Care Organization project team members?
   
   

5. Activity Duration Estimates: What is your organizations history in doing similar activities?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Was the admissibility of variants displayed in the contract notice?
   
   

7. Project Scope Statement: Will all tasks resulting from issues be entered into the Accountable Care Organization project Plan and tracked through the plan?
   
   

8. Change Management Plan: Has the priority for this Accountable Care Organization project been set by the Business Unit Management Team?
   
   

9. Executing Process Group: Do the partners have sufficient financial capacity to keep up the benefits produced by the programme?
   
   

10. Schedule Management Plan: Is documentation created for communication with the suppliers and Vendors?


 
Step-by-step and complete Accountable Care Organization Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Accountable Care Organization project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Accountable Care Organization project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Accountable Care Organization project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Accountable Care Organization project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Accountable Care Organization project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Accountable Care Organization project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Accountable Care Organization project with this in-depth Accountable Care Organization Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Accountable Care Organization projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Accountable Care Organization and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Accountable Care Organization investments work better.

This Accountable Care Organization All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.