Historical benchmarking created “selection on slopes,” structurally favoring inefficient ACOs with more reducible spending and limiting reward potential for efficient organizations nearing a spending ...

The American Hospital Association has submitted comments to CMS suggesting changes to be made to the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Model and the Medicare Shared Savings Program. In the letter, ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is looking into ways that Medicare can strengthen accountable care organizations and the shared savings program to make them more effective for providers and ...

Is Medicare's accountable care program so challenging and unsustainable that participating health systems need an exit strategy? According to the latest federal data, last year about 64 of the 243 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Honest Health, a leader in primary care transformation, announced today that its Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the ACO REACH ...

Community Care Cooperative (C3), the largest and most successful non-profit, FQHC-governed ACO in the country, announced today that it achieved $10.2 million in shared savings through the Medicare ...

Wellvana announced today its support of 190,000 new Medicare beneficiaries in 2026 through its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO partners. This growth reflects increasing demand from ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

CMS just released 2016 data on the Medicare Shared Savings Program and the information proves that patience pays off, savings don't have to happen at the expense of quality, and that physician-led ...

To help address some of these key issues, in 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the ACO Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) model, explicitly ...