Several weeks ago CMS announced its newest accountable care organization (ACO) program, the Next Generation ACO. A significant departure from past Medicare ACO programs, the Next Generation ACOs will ...

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 ...

Some programs would be able to continue using one of three current systems through 2029 ...

Sound Long-Term Care Management (SLTCM), an accountable care organization (ACO) within Sound Physicians, today announces that ...

On Friday, February 6, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the withdrawal of the 2011 Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations Participating in ...

The authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination ...

If you are looking for a consensus on the success or failure of Medicare’s Accountable Care Organization experiment, you are not likely to find it. That’s because while most ACOs have improved the ...

The transition within the healthcare industry from a fee-for-service model to accountable care structures includes a fundamental shift in who manages risk. As we move toward accountable care models, ...

The number of providers serving as accountable care organizations increased slightly this year thanks to the start of a new advanced model and a slew of reforms meant to reverse a slide in ...

Despite spending close to twice as much per person on healthcare, the U.S. achieves worse health outcomes. With U.S. healthcare costs now accounting for close to 20% of the country’s GDP, is the way ...

Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through ...