Several weeks ago CMS announced its newest accountable care organization (ACO) program, the Next Generation ACO. A significant departure from past Medicare ACO programs, the Next Generation ACOs will ...

Changes announced to ACO REACH model for 2025 and 2026 will disincentivize providers from achieving meaningful improvements across the quintuple aim, according to Gary Jacobs, executive director at ...

The ACO REACH (short for “Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health”) Model is the new Medicare value-based payment demonstration model for providers launched this ...

On Friday, February 6, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the withdrawal of the 2011 Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations Participating in ...

Continuing downward pressure on reimbursements has threatened the sustainability of hospitals, and some within the industry see a significant need for providers to respond differently than they have ...

The authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination ...

Many rural providers, like critical access hospitals, rely on cost-based reimbursement or flat, encounter-based payments like ...

The number of providers serving as accountable care organizations increased slightly this year thanks to the start of a new advanced model and a slew of reforms meant to reverse a slide in ...

Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through ...

Accountable care organizations are calling on the feds to increase participation of long-term and post-acute care providers in ACOs and to better incorporate episodic-based payments. The recently ...