The authors’ multidisciplinary care management program shows promise, as the reduction in per-patient per-month spending was $116. However, these financial benefits took time to materialize.

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 ...

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 ...

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system is pulling its accountable care organization out of Medicare’s Pioneer Program, following suit of 13 other organizations that have dropped out ...

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 ...

Engaging specialty physicians is an emerging area of focus for Medicare accountable care organizations. Enhanced data on specialist costs and outcomes are essential to addressing alignment challenges.

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 ...

"We don't want to wait for symptoms. We can be proactive, before a full exacerbation of a chronic disease," says one ACO executive. Yet another benefit of the pandemic's telehealth expansion is more ...

In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched new voluntary payment models for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with incentives to control spending. The number of ...

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 ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published new changes to further advance health equity and increase participation under the ACO REACH model. National Association of ACOs ...

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 ...