The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...

Accountable care may still be a relatively new model in some areas, but the numbers of ACOs are steadily increasing. There were approximately 660 ACOs in the U.S. in 2015. The number increased to 838 ...

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 ...

Starting in January 2023, health care payment policy will take an important step toward health equity. Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new accountable care ...

On the same day CMS issued its proposed rule on accountable care organizations, the Internal Revenue Service issued a notice (2011-20) that it is considering extending provisions of the Internal ...

The Trump administration has revealed what comes next when the ACO REACH model concludes at the end of 2026. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation unveiled the Long-Term Enhanced ACO Design, ...

Medicare accountable care organizations use preferred skilled nursing facility networks for postacute care management, although the size, structure, and resource allocation of networks vary widely.

The following article is written by Brenda Morrow ([email protected]) of HealthCare Reimbursement InSIGHT. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a long-awaited proposed ...

Most specialty groups are wondering how the advent of accountable care organizations will impact their practice, but anesthesia, which is often a relatively separate entity from the hospital, is in a ...

Alex Kacik: Federal regulators have been trying to boost risk based contracting and healthcare. Their latest attempt is to give new Medicare Accountable Care Organizations advanced shared savings ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program lets healthcare providers form or join Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to coordinate higher-quality care to Medicare beneficiaries while helping reduce costs.