What is an accountable care organization (ACO)?
ACOs help your doctors and other health care providers offer the care you need, when you need it. The goal is to organize your care to help you get the best health care possible. Optum is proud to be part of ACOs.
ACOs help coordinate your health care. This means that everyone on your health care team shares information and works together. The focus is on helping you get the right care at the right time. This also helps keep medical mistakes and unneeded services from happening.
What is the Medicare Shared Savings Program?
The Shared Savings Program is the main Medicare ACO program. As of January 2024, there were almost 500 Medicare ACOs nationwide serving nearly 11 million patients with Medicare.* The goal of Medicare ACOs is to make sure that people with Medicare get the right care at the right time.
All ACOs must file a public report every year. The information it includes:
- Helps patients make informed choices
- Gives feedback to health care providers and stakeholders
- Helps improve the quality of care and lower its cost
- Makes sure that Optum Nevada ACO is meeting program guidelines
*CMS.gov. Shared Savings Program. Page last modified October 31, 2025. Last accessed November 20, 2025.