Physician practices participating in a Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) may have an easier time submitting ...

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

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said this is the highest share of accountable care organizations that earned payments as well as the largest amount of savings generated in the program ...

Legislation delays mandatory digital-only quality reporting for Shared Savings Program ACOs, addressing gaps in EHR/IT infrastructure that disproportionately affect smaller, rural, and independent ...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is looking into ways that Medicare can strengthen accountable care organizations and the shared savings program to make them more effective for providers and ...

It has been widely assumed that better management and coordination of care for chronic conditions and high-risk patients would be the leading mechanisms for achieving savings in accountable care ...

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 ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program allows healthcare providers to create or participate in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that aim to deliver better healthcare while helping lower costs. The ...

The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) adjusts savings benchmarks by beneficiaries’ baseline risk scores. To discourage increased coding intensity, the benchmark is not adjusted upward if ...

CMS released a final rule Monday that aims to strengthen incentives for accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Regarding the changes, CMS Acting Administrator Andy ...

Medicare beneficiaries with dementia receive no measurable differences in end-of-life care whether they are in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) or traditional Medicare, according to a new study ...

"It’s a challenging program," Ken Perez, director of healthcare policy at MedeAnalytics, told Healthcare IT News in July 2013. The Pioneer model, he said, "just doesn’t generate the quick hits, the ...