Dr. David Ballard, Chief Quality Officer and Senior Vice President at the Baylor Health Care System in Dallas, TX and Executive Director of its Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, introduces a series of articles appearing in the August 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings where he shares a 3-part interview with 3 leading health care experts, Drs Shulkin, Couch, and Haydar, who are involved with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). They discuss how and why the Medicare ACO...