Long-term care operators are again calling on regulators to give them more control in accountable care organizations, a move they say could save Medicare $2 billion or more per year.

ACOs entering MSSP with higher spending were consistently more likely to earn bonuses—a gap that persisted after a 2017 ...

For the first time, CMS has published individual financial and performance results for the original 32 Pioneer accountable care organizations, which provide insight into why 12 of the ACOs exited the ...

Most ACO models involve a provider taking financial responsibility for their patient population's total cost of care and addressing key quality measures over the course of a year. The Medicare Shared ...

Whether an ACO enters into a shared savings or capitation arrangement, its financial success will depend on delivering and managing care that meets or beats the established actuarial budget. For ACO ...

Accountable Care Organizations are struggling to find specialists to improve value-based care, although it is a top priority Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Meanwhile, ACOs face ...

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 ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published new changes to further advance health equity and increase participation under the ACO REACH model. National Association of ACOs ...

Payment models that align financial incentives of payers, providers, and patients can mitigate spending growth in thoughtful ways, but the details of the models matter. Objectives: Commercial ...

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

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 ...