More than half (56 percent) of accountable care organizations (ACOs) taking on downside risk through the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) are considering exiting the program due to concerns that...
Providers participating in some of Medicare’s largest value-based purchasing models will have some flexibility with quality reporting due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, CMS announced last...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and other shared risk models are worried the novel coronavirus pandemic could leave them responsible for shared losses...
Applications for the upcoming Direct Contracting Model are due by the end of the day, but the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) is saying providers do not have enough information on model specifics...
The passage of the Affordable Care Act sparked many innovative care delivery and payment reform models. One unique model that emerged from this trend was the accountable care organization (ACO).
In this model, groups of doctors,...
More accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) have assumed downside risk as the program progresses, according to a new Avalere analysis.
Most...
Last week, CMS Administrator Seema Verma reported that CMS approved the applications for 53 new accountable care organizations (ACOs) to join the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) starting on Jan....
The number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the overhauled Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) assuming downside financial risk doubled from 93 ACOS at the start of 2019 to 192 at the...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program saved CMS approximately $3.52 billion from 2013 to 2017, according to a new analysis from analytic firm Dobson DaVanzo &...
Fourteen healthcare industry groups, including the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Medical Association (AMA), recently backed the campion to Senate legislation that would alter...
The introduction of Pathways to Success may behind falling accountable care organization (ACO) participation numbers, according to researchers from Leavitt Partners and the Duke-Margolis Center for...
Physician-led accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) produced nearly seven times the savings per beneficiary than hospital-led ACOs, a new analysis...
Accountable care organization (ACO) success was no stranger to physicians at Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care. Now that the two major health systems are combined, the new...
Accountable care organization (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program saved $739.4 million in 2018 after accounting for shared savings and losses that year, according to program data released by...
The latest accountable care organization (ACO) participation numbers for the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) raise concerns for the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS).
In a recent Health...
CMS Administrator Seema Verma urged hospitals on Tuesday to accept new value-based care models and price transparency requirements or face greater administrative burden, less competition, and lower...
The Medicare Shared Savings Program, which governs the majority of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), and Medicare Advantage are gaining in popularity. But the former is saving taxpayers,...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have reduced Medicare spending and improved care quality, but some organizations are doing it better than others, the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)...
CMS selected 206 accountable care organizations (ACOs) to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) under Pathways to Success, including 41 entirely new ACOs and 25 re-entering the...
Providers queued up eagerly to partake in the Medicare Shared Savings Program when the rewards outweighed the risks, but many accountable care organizations exited the program as the balance of risk shifted to their perceived...