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NAACOS Calls For Renewed HHS Focus, Funding on Value-Based Care

NAACOS Calls For Renewed HHS Focus, Funding on Value-Based Care

March 25, 2021Hannah NelsonNo CommentsRevCycle IntelligenceMedicare ACOs/MSSP,Alternative payment models (APMs),Direct Contracting,Geographic Direct Contracting

In a letter to HHS, the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) recommended that the agency promote significant ACO growth after several years of policies have hampered healthcare’s move toward value-based care.

The letter, written by President and CEO of NAACOS, Clif Gaus, ScD, outlined the cost-saving impact ACOs have had on Medicare spending and urged new HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, to drive ACO growth.

“Since 2012, ACOs, including those in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Next Generation ACO Model, and the now expired Pioneer ACO Model, have lowered Medicare spending by $8.5 billion and $2.5 billion after accounting for shared saving and loss payments and discounts to CMS,” Gaus said in a press release.

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: NAACOS

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