Care coordination is a major opportunity for improving costs, quality and satisfaction, as illustrated on the graph below. Source: Identifying and Quantifying the Cost of Uncoordinated Care: ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services debuted a slate of changes to ACO REACH on Monday designed to boost participation in the value-based care program. The agency's Center for Medicare and ...
On March 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed new regulations for accountable care organizations. While they are complex – in excess of 400 pages in length – it is also clear that ...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) face unique burdens to comply with CMS’s new quality reporting requirements as summarized in this 2021 MedCity News article. Challenges are particularly acute for ...
After years of steady ACO growth, our last several ACO tracking updates have shown plateaus or slight declines. As we noted in prior years, this was likely partially a result of policies that ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quietly released changes to the ACO REACH Model, prompting one industry group to react to the modifications. The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS ...
While more than a dozen states have reportedly adopted ACOs in their Medicaid programs, we found only 27 published empirical studies of these initiatives, with the majority of them describing results ...
The American Society of Anesthesiologists recently submitted a letter to the Federal Trade Commission in response to its proposed statement of antitrust enforcement policy regarding ACOs, according to ...
LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Persivia, a provider of real-time quality and care management solutions, announced today that Prime Healthcare ACO has successfully reported on all their quality ...