Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
In a letter submitted today, the AHA continued to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to modify the shared savings determination in the Medicare Shared Savings Program so that more accountable care organizations can share in more of the savings they generate.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Innovation Center is accepting the second and final round of applications for its Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model, which will begin its second performance year on Jan. 1, 2017. Participants in the model take on greater…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a proposed rule that would make technical changes to the way financial targets are calculated for accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. CMS proposes to account for differences in regional health…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced 121 new Medicare Accountable Care Organization participants, including 21 that will begin participating this year in a new Next Generation ACO model.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General today finalized waivers from fraud and abuse rules for Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced the participants for the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model, a new accountable care organization model for Medicare patients with end-stage renal disease.
The AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free webinar on Accountable Care Organization concepts and how Medicare ACOs can be part of a hospital organization’s strategy to move from volume to value. The webinar explores the difference between commercial and Medicare ACOs, where…
Medicare Accountable Care Organizations qualified for more than $422 million in shared savings in 2014 by meeting quality standards and their savings threshold, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. Eleven Pioneer ACOs earned $82 million in shared savings and…