While one of the primary goals of joining an accountable care organization (ACO) is to coordinate care in effort to reduce healthcare spending, many Medicare ACO participants have seen early benefits...
As many healthcare providers know, participating in a value-based care program, such as an accountable care organization, is about more than just tying payment to quality. It involves shouldering...
As the number of accountable care organizations (ACO) continues to grow, many healthcare providers are all too familiar with the alternative payment model’s overarching goals of improving care...
As the healthcare industry moves towards value-based care, more providers are choosing alternative payment models to facilitate the transition. CAPG, a trade association of accountable physician...
The Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program faced a number of management and leadership challenges during its early days, according to a report from the Office of the Inspector General...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently finalized a rule that will change the methodology for calculating costs under Medicare Shared Saving Program, the federal agency...
While accountable care organizations (ACOs) are popular and effective ways to implement value-based care, many ACOs are still facing significant challenges with managing risk and healthcare costs as the...
By stripping commercial accountable care organizations (ACOs) of their charitable tax exempt status, the IRS could be threatening the future of value-based care and care coordination, according to the...
CMS has expanded the eligibility requirements in the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) model to include primary care physicians in certain Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), according...
According to a report from Leavitt Partners, 42 percent of accountable care organizations (ACO) residing in high-cost markets in the Medicare’s Shared Savings Program (MSSP) earned shared savings,...
The MACRA Alternative Payment Model incentives should be implemented in a way that provides the best opportunity for physicians to become qualifying participants, the American Hospital Association argued...
As the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) continues to deploy new programs, evidence of the impact of existing models continues to trickle in. One consistent theme: the importance of, and...
MACRA means different things to various types of healthcare providers, such as critical access hospitals, rural health clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Although the new MACRA framework...
Four medical groups participating in Anthem Blue Cross accountable care organization (ACO) arrangements were able to save a total of $14.8 million from 2013 to 2014 due to improved coordinated care...
The number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) continue to increase across the county. Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced 121 new Medicare...
An unnamed accountable care organization (ACO) will not be able to claim charitable tax exempt status since its role centered on facilitation instead of the provision of care, the IRS said in a...
MassHealth, the combine management of Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs by the Commonwealth, is joining the accountable care movement by proposing a major $1.5 billion overhaul of its...
Providers interested in participating in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program now have until May 20, 2016 to submit their letters of intent, CMS announced this week.
In order...
Last month, the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) submitted comments for the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) Financial Benchmarking Draft White Paper. NAACOS takes on the...
The hospital industry has been experiencing a number of challenges in recent years due to the payment reforms coming from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial health payers.
There has been a much greater...
