Accountable Care Organization stakeholders are applauding the capitation payments in the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model but lament that it leaves out high-revenue ACOs. The Centers for Medicare and ...

Starting in 2018, clinicians may join an advanced alternative payment model to earn incentive payments under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. Rural hospitals are also allowed to ...

During this segment, Michael Kolodziej, MD, and Ted Okon, MBA, discuss how programs such as CMS’ Next Generation ACO model and the Community Oncology Alliance’s (COA’s) Oncology Medical Home model are ...

The ACO REACH (short for “Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health”) Model is the new Medicare value-based payment demonstration model for providers launched this ...

Julian Malinak, MPH, finance lead for the pioneer accountable care organization (ACO) and next generation ACO models and technical advisor for financial policy at CMS Innovation Center, explained that ...

The goal of the value movement is to incentivize providers to move away from the traditional fee-for-service model and provide coordinated care for patients with an eye toward improving quality and ...

The first of its kind in the nation, the all-payer accountable care organization (ACO) model allows Vermont the opportunity to create a transformative payment model that moves all payers (Medicare, ...

CMS’ Next Generation ACO Model welcomed 28 entrants since the start of 2017, bringing the total number of participating organizations to 45. ACOs selected for the Next Generation model have already ...

Many of us have been waiting to hear the final word about what’s next from CMS for the Next Generation ACO Model. On May 21, 2021, CMS’s Innovation Center (“CMMI”) confirmed that the Next Generation ...

Atrius Health, the largest independent nonprofit physicians’ group in Massachusetts, has been selected to participate in a government-sponsored accountable care organization (ACO) model for Medicare ...

"In previous work we found that the ACO model can reduce total Medicare spending while improving quality in some key areas, or at least without causing quality to deteriorate," says study senior ...