How Do Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and the Medicare Advantage (MA) Program Compare? (December)

How these two Medicare payment and delivery reform programs compare is important since the federal government needs to curb Medicare cost growth via Alternative Payment Models (APMs), moreover via ACOs, and since MA plans are not, or at least are not currently, defined as an APM.  For a discussion of how the two compare please see my essay titled, "The Need to Level The Playing Field Between Accountable Care Organizations and Medicare Advantage," recently published by AJAC, at: 

(http://www.ajmc.com/journals/ajac/2015/2015-vol3-n4/The-Need-to-Level-the-Playing-Field-Between-Accountable-Care-Organizations-and-Medicare-Advantage).