Health system leaders either running an ACO or looking to operate one should prepare for the potential financial losses that could come with functioning as a CMS-approved ACO, according to a report in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Health care providers looking to explore or expand their involvement in value-based care through affiliation with an accountable care organization (ACO) have a large number of options available to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A higher percentage of accountable care organization (ACO) primary care providers was associated with physician leadership, upside financial risk, and financial compensation of physicians tied to ...