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 ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced ( Jan. 15 that it will host a webinar Jan. 29 on its new accountable care organization model, the Long-term Enhanced ACO Design Model.

Two years after launching a Pioneer accountable care organization to serve Medicare patients, Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has exceeded expectations in some areas. But in others, the organization ...

Medicare is trying again with another accountable care organization (ACO) payment model aimed at primary care doctors, but reactions to the new model are mixed so far. The voluntary model, known as ...

Nestled between New Hampshire and upstate New York, Vermont is a quiet, mostly rural state. But it's the site of a federal test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers ...

Accountable care organizations in the ACO Reach program can claim credit for saving the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hundreds of millions of dollars. ACO Reach participants racked up ...

CMS created a Medicare-Medicaid ACO model to improve the quality of care and lower costs to the programs’ beneficiaries. Here’s what you need to know. 1. The model mirrors the Medicare Shared Savings ...

The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model went out a winner in its second and final year by saving Medicare $371.5 million in 2022, a more than fivefold improvement from the prior year, the ...

In Part one of this two-part post, we explored the reasons for surging growth and profits in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and the dynamics, largely related to risk-coding games, that make MA a ...