Accountable care organizations had a record year, according to the latest performance data for the Medicare Shared Savings Program. CMS recently announced that organizations participating in the program – which are otherwise known as ACOs – saved Medicare nearly $1.2 billion in 2019 while maintaining a high level of care quality as measured by longstanding program metrics….
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With CMS recently releasing MSSP 2019 performance results and the lingering pandemic, ACOs across the country are evaluating and shifting their priorities. Our organization would like to get a better handle on the issue at large and how it continues to affect ACOs this year and in the future. Proficient Health is conducting market research…
ACOs have largely sidestepped the cost transparency dispute raging between Medicare and medical providers, especially hospitals, due to CMS rules requiring providers to give consumers coverage-based cost estimates. If you’re an ACO, you probably assume that cost transparency is not your problem. So you probably won’t like to hear that your ACO should be helping…
A new survey confirms a growing concern among accountable care organizations (ACOs) – most ACOs are unlikely to meet rising participation thresholds for MACRA’s Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) in 2021. The survey from the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) recently found that more than 90 percent of ACOs participating in an Advanced APM, including the Medicare Shared…
Although research has shown that a person’s health outcome is closely related to the social and environmental backgrounds they live and interact with, questions around how social factors impact health outcomes have never received copious attention until the country was struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. Data released by the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention…
As if things weren’t dramatic enough already in U.S. healthcare, a “battle of the narratives” has developed between senior officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), especially CMS Administrator Seema Verma, and the leaders of NAACOS— the National Association of ACOs—which have been locked in an ongoing war of words with each…
Key Insights Accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Pathways to Success Program saved $1.2 billion in healthcare costs in 2019. The results show how physicians have been able to reduce wasteful healthcare spending while improving patient outcomes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Physicians can get involved with an ACO…
CMS has issued a letter to Medicaid directors regarding how states can accelerate their Medicaid value-based care adoption, based largely on lessons learned in CMS efforts toward value-based care in Medicare. “The Trump Administration has long worked to accelerate the overdue move to value-based care, but for too long these efforts have been piecemeal,” said CMS Administrator…
