Aurora Health Care is exploring alternatives to Medicare's accountable care organizations after officials with the Milwaukee health system rejected proposed federal rules as too risky.
Myrle Croasdale, an Aurora spokeswoman, said the system is “looking at other options” to Medicare's accountable care, but declined to comment on the 12-hospital system's private-market plans.
The Business Journal in Milwaukee reported the system is seeking to launch what Ray Grady, Aurora’s chief administrative officer, described in the journal as a “trial ACO.”
Aurora is among the hospitals and health systems that joined the private-market ACO development effort launched by Premier in early 2010.
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