CMS has announced that more than 700,000 healthcare providers and organizations are participating in one of three accountable care organization (ACO) models, including the Medicare Shared Savings...
Efforts to make the healthcare system more efficient and equitable by adjusting population-based payments for social risk factors may be missing the mark, suggests a new study from Harvard and Yale....
US Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have introduced a bipartisan bill that would extend value-based payment incentives for healthcare providers participating in...
A group of lawmakers, spearheaded by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), has asked CMS to examine the ACO REACH model to prevent organizations with a...
As healthcare spending escalates in the US, stakeholders have started looking at value-based payment models to address rising costs, but many payments are still tied to fee-for-service models,...
The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model generated $70 million in net savings for the Medicare program in 2021, with several member organizations of America’s Physician Groups (APG)...
Accountable care is getting a makeover. For over a decade, the healthcare system has been making the shift to accountable care, or “the coordinated provision of patient services by healthcare providers and facilities with the goals...
Before implementing program-wide requirements for digital quality measurement in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), CMS should establish a pilot that tests the technical feasibility and the...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that serve a high proportion of racial and ethnic minorities were more likely to exit the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) compared to ACOs serving mostly...
More than 800 accountable care organizations (ACOs) and healthcare associations, including the National Association of ACOs (NAACOs) and American Medical Association (AMA), have asked Congress to...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) aim to improve healthcare quality for patients while reducing costs. Even as healthcare providers have operated in an unstable industry for the past few years, ACO programs have continued to achieve...
Healthcare groups, including the American Medical Association (AMA), have asked CMS to consider additional updates to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) before finalizing the Medicare Physician...
Over half of Shared Savings Program ACOs earned payments for their quality and cost performance in 2021, according to new data from CMS.
The federal agency reports that ACOs in the Medicare Shared...
Mental healthcare is costly for both Medicare and its beneficiaries, but ACO participation may help reduce the expenses for those facing serious mental illness, according to a new study published in...
The Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Care (CEC) Model reduced Medicare payments and hospitalizations among beneficiaries with ESRD, suggesting that specialty-oriented accountable care...
Home-based care initiatives were common among accountable care organizations (ACOs), but ACO leaders cited the lack of return on investment as a barrier to expanding these services, according to a...
More than 200 healthcare organizations, including Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and the American Medical Student Association, have urged CMS and HHS to terminate the ACO REACH model,...
The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) has launched a coalition to help providers learn about and prepare for the new ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) model.
The coalition...
Value-based care is a form of reimbursement that ties payments for care delivery to the quality of care provided and rewards providers for both efficiency and effectiveness. This form of reimbursement has emerged as an alternative and...
CMS has overhauled the Global and Professional Direct Contracting model and announced the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) model. The redesigned accountable care organization...