Assisted living can be an important partner in value-based care, saving the government $390 million annually, according to one estimate, but CMS must develop a new ACO model focused on such settings ...
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.
CMMI has spent more than a decade learning which organizations consistently deliver high-value care. The next step is to let beneficiaries act on that information and allow competition, rather than ...
With the advent of the ACO programs 15 years ago — Medicare Shared Savings Program was launched as part of the implementation ...
ACOs entering MSSP with higher spending were consistently more likely to earn bonuses—a gap that persisted after a 2017 ...
Cave Consulting Group, Inc. (CCGroup) was selected by a multi-state Medicare accountable care organization (Medicare ACO) to build, implement, and maintain their preferred specialist referral network ...
Over the past year, providers have been hopefully contemplating and building new delivery system models designed to reward better outcomes, population health and increased value. Perhaps the most ...
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 ...
Medicare beneficiaries with dementia receive no measurable differences in end-of-life care whether they are in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) or traditional Medicare, according to a new study ...
Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...
Accountable care organizations were among the key initiatives of the Affordable Care Act, designed to help control soaring Medicare costs. ACOs were expected to save the government nearly $5 billion ...