In a comparison of two state Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs, researchers in a JAMA Internal Medicine study found that Oregon’s global capitation ACO model produced similar...
A new JAMA Internal Medicine study showed that Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) accountable care organizations (ACOs) established in 2012 decreased post-acute care spending by a 9 percent...
Providers interested in participating in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model in 2018 can now submit a letter of intent to CMS, according to the alternative payment...
In a new Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Track 1+ fact sheet, CMS clarified model details for 2018 to 2020 participation, including maximum shared savings and losses rates, risk assignments, and...
As part of its 2017 advocacy agenda, the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) released policy recommendations for ACO improvement. The recommendations included Medicare Shared...
Children with medical complexities, or children who require the highest level of service and support, are one of the most expensive pediatric patient populations.
But provider collaboration and...
As the Quality Payment Program links more Medicare payments to value-based reimbursement, a new Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) track will allow eligible clinicians to qualify for additional...
CMS recently unveiled a Medicare-Medicaid accountable care organization (ACO) model that will allow participating providers in the Medicare Shared Savings Program to take on accountability for Medicaid...
A recent Leavitt Partners study showed that 61 percent of accountable care organization (ACO) contracts are upside risk-only, indicating that ACOs may be risk-adverse or are still in the experimental...
Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) that are part of Premier Inc.’s Population Health Management Collaborative (PHMC) outperformed other Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and...
The MassHealth program in Massachusetts will received about $1.8 billion over the next five years to implement value-based reimbursement structures in the statewide accountable care organization (ACO)...
Starting in January 2017, Vermont will implement the first voluntary all-payer accountable care organization (ACO) model that will align ACO design across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers,...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) leaders may need to boost healthcare provider engagement to foster value-based care success, a recent study in the American Journal of Accountable Care...
House representatives Diane Black (R-TN) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced a bill last week that would change the rules for Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).
The ACO Improvement Act of...
Participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) already familiar with physician practice transformation were more likely to earn shared savings payments, which should lead the Centers for...
Massachusetts-based Atrius Health successfully managed several care quality improvements over the previous year and earned both the recognition of CMS and a portion of shared savings as a participant in...
CMS should use a modified Next Generation model benchmark methodology to calculate healthcare cost thresholds to ensure all accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program...
Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) saved more than $466 million in 2015, with 125 ACOs qualifying for shared savings payments under the value-based care model, CMS reported in an announcement...
With a final rule on implementing MACRA coming in the next couple of months, some accountable care organizations (ACOs) have started to analyze new value-based reimbursement structures under the proposed...
To usher in the age of value-based care, CMS has implemented several value-based care programs and introduced various alternative payment models, such as accountable care organizations (ACO). These...
