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 ...

Two years after launching a Pioneer accountable care organization to serve Medicare patients, Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare has exceeded expectations in some areas. But in others, the organization ...

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 ...

Medicare is trying again with another accountable care organization (ACO) payment model aimed at primary care doctors, but reactions to the new model are mixed so far. The voluntary model, known as ...

Last year saw a sharp acceleration in new models of value-based care launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Nestled between New Hampshire and upstate New York, Vermont is a quiet, mostly rural state. But it's the site of a federal test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers ...

CMS created a Medicare-Medicaid ACO model to improve the quality of care and lower costs to the programs’ beneficiaries. Here’s what you need to know. 1. The model mirrors the Medicare Shared Savings ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--agilon health, inc. (NYSE: AGL), the trusted partner empowering physicians to transform health care in our communities, announced that its Accountable Care ...

In Part one of this two-part post, we explored the reasons for surging growth and profits in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program and the dynamics, largely related to risk-coding games, that make MA a ...

The Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model went out a winner in its second and final year by saving Medicare $371.5 million in 2022, a more than fivefold improvement from the prior year, the ...