Accountable Care Organization Assignment and Outcomes and Spending for TEAM Surgical Conditions

Nicholas L Berlin; Yanlei Ma; Jie Zheng; John Orav; Jose F Figueroa; Andrew M Ryan; Karen E Joynt Maddox; Thomas C Tsai

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.14013

Accountable Care Organization Assignment and Outcomes and Spending for TEAM Surgical Conditions

JAMA. 2025 Nov 4;334(17):1553-1555. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.14013.

Authors

Nicholas L Berlin¹, Yanlei Ma², Jie Zheng², John Orav³, Jose F Figueroa², Andrew M Ryan⁴, Karen E Joynt Maddox⁵, Thomas C Tsai^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island.
⁵ Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
⁶ American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois.

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Plain language summary

This study examines the association between beneficiary accountable care organization assignment and clinical outcomes and episode spending for Transforming Episode Accountability Model–targeted surgical conditions.