The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, recently released a request for applications seeking accountable care organizations (ACOs) to engage ...

The Long-term Enhanced ACO Design (LEAD) Model is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (Innovation Center) next-generation accountable care initiative, created to succeed the ACO REACH ...

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 ...

Mr. Crane says the ACO model is very similar to a capitated model, where providers get a set payment for all services and have to keep expenses in check. While physician groups in the rest of the ...

The authors discuss multiple challenges to the production of policy-relevant results from evaluation of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs). Objectives: To explain key challenges to ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

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 ...

Manhasset, N.Y.-based Beacon Health Partners, an independent physician association made up of 90 independent physician practices throughout New York, began moving toward forming an ACO in 2010, ...

To date, of the more than 330 Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) accountable care organizations, 93 percent have been located in high or mixed population density areas, and very few Rural Health ...