Craig N. Melin is president and chief executive officer of Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Mass. weighs in on ACOs

There are four critical components to this future: quality, safety, health focus, and value. Some of the critical components are tougher to achieve in the current fee-for-service environment, but we at Cooley Dickinson are focused on them nonetheless.

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