The number of Medicare beneficiaries treated in accountable care organizations continues to rise, according to new data from ...

As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hits reset on an important value-based care initiative popular with health care providers, ...

Accountable Care Organization stakeholders are applauding the capitation payments in the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model but lament that it leaves out high-revenue ACOs. The Centers for Medicare and ...

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 ...

Success of the accountable care organization (ACO) model may require stronger financial incentives, such as including downside risk in contracts. Using the National Survey of ACOs, we explored ACO ...

The federal agency has made the changes after receiving feedback from stakeholders and participants. CMS announced changes to the ACO REACH Model for 2024, which will advance health equity and afford ...

Accountable care organizations in the ACO Reach program can claim credit for saving the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hundreds of millions of dollars. ACO Reach participants racked up ...

CMS announces remaining provisional awardees in stealth mode. If you weren't looking closely, you might have missed CMS' announcement of the 110 participants that have been provisionally accepted into ...

Only a couple of years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for healthcare experts to call accountable care organizations “unicorns.” Despite the excitement and discussion around the model, few people had seen one ...

The authors describe a 3-step framework for how accountable care organizations (ACOs) can ensure that patients' needs, values, and preferences are incorporated into ACO governance decisions.

In the short time that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have formally been a part of the health care landscape, they have grown to cover more than 32 million patients across every state in the ...

As accountable care organizations are a new model of care, formally created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, they are constantly evolving and changing.Much has changed even ...